Red Hat's JBoss middleware is landing big greenfield deals as well wins with established outfits like the NYSE Euronext. Meanwhile, Red Hat says its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 be cloud ready.
Oracle, Accenture and Red Hat saw turbulence in their most recent quarters. It remains to be seen if these companies are seeing an operational blip or an enterprise demand slowdown.
Red Hat on Tuesday said it has settled a patent infringement lawsuit that covers the company's open source software and any other derivative works.The lawsuit was launched by Firestar Software and DataTern in 2006.
Red Hat reported strong fourth quarter results and indicated that it was managing through economic adversity well. More importantly, Red Hat indicated that its JBoss middleware business may be gaining at the expense of Oracle.
Novell executives are telling folks that HP will soon preload Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) on laptops and desktops.Novell executives have been quite chatty about the win at Novel's Brainshare conference.
The technology earnings season kicks off in earnest Tuesday when Intel reports its second quarter results, but the outlook for the sector may sound like a broken record: Visibility is low and IT budgets fluctuate with everything from CEO mood swings to the stock market.A handful of companies---Dell, Infosys, Red Hat, Oracle, and Lawson---have already riffed on technology budgets amid a volatile economic picture.
The LiMo Foundation said the first release of its Linux-based platform for mobile devices is on track for March delivery.LiMo, a consortium of mobile industry players including Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, added that its handset software and its application programming interface (API) specs will also be delivered in March.
Red Hat continues to report strong quarterly results as the company plans to ramp up its cloud management capabilities.
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Red Hat on Thursday named former Delta Airlines executive James Whitehurst CEO effective Jan. 1.