Ten Reasons To Get Fired Up Over Fedora 10 Final

November 24, 2008

by Fedora Team

Through this series of blog posts we’ve attempted to highlight just a few of the many significant features that will be included in Fedora 10. We hope these posts have piqued your interest and encouraged you to download Fedora 10 and even get involved in the Fedora Community. The final release...

Ten Reasons To Get Fired Up Over Fedora 10 Part 4

November 21, 2008

by Fedora Team

If there’s one thing that the Fedora Project does well, it’s community. With thousands of project members and contributors, and millions of users, we consider it not just a duty but a calling. One of the discoveries we made early on was that locality is a big part of community. Our Ambassadors...

Ten Reasons to Get Fired Up Over Fedora 10 Part 3

November 20, 2008

by Fedora Team

Fedora 10 leads free software distributions in a number of areas. One that is tremendously important to commercial entities is our virtualization platform. As with some other features found in Fedora releases, vitualization tools and capabilities often make their way into future Red Hat...

Ten Reasons to Get Fired Up Over Fedora 10 Part 2

November 18, 2008

by Fedora Team

Yesterday we told you about some of the changes in appearance you’ll see in Fedora 10. Today we continue our blog series with a discussion on how Fedora contributors are making significant advances in printing and better webcam support. You may not see these features, but they’ll make a big...

Ten Reasons to Get Fired Up Over Fedora 10 Part 1

November 17, 2008

by Fedora Team

Over the next week we plan to post a series of blogs that explore ten examples from around our community, of people making a difference to free software through their work in Fedora. These are just ten of the many reasons you’ll want to fire up Fedora 10 and take it for a spin on your system...

Cost Control Hits Home

November 14, 2008

by Lee Congdon, Chief Information Officer

I just reviewed an IDC report that indicates IT spending will grow at 2.6% in 2009, a lower rate of growth than previously forecast. That mirrors my view that on average, IT organizations will continue to invest next year, albeit at a modest rate. However, I don’t believe the general trend fully...

JBoss.org Portal Project v 2.7 Now Available

November 11, 2008

by JBoss Team

Red Hat is pleased to announce that JBoss.org Portal project v2.7 is now available. Congratulations to the team for their hard work and dedication on this latest version, which is the first of several versions to be released over the next two years, solidifying Open Source as a leader in the...

QPid Welcomes a New Member

November 7, 2008

by Red Hat Enterprise MRG Team

QPid is the upstream open source project led by Apache that Red Hat participates heavily in to help develop Red Hat Enterprise MRG and to provide AMQP in Fedora. The initial QPid proposal was submitted by a Red Hat engineer to Apache, and the QPid community has grown significantly since then to...

MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform expands data source and platform support, ease-of-use and monitoring

November 5, 2008

by JBoss Team

We are pleased to announce that the latest Service Pack release for MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform, v5.5 SP3, is now available for new and existing customers. 5.5 SP3 adds and extends capabilities in the areas of platform and data source support, usability and monitoring.In addition...

Red Hat Delivers Red Hat Network Satellite 5.2

November 5, 2008

by Systems Management Team

The Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite team is pleased to announce the general availability of RHN Satellite and Proxy version 5.2 today. Though 5.2 is an incremental release for Satellite, it marks an important update for highlights including expanded platform and database support. Primarily a...

Where’s Red Hat this November?

November 4, 2008

by Events Team

North America It’s been a busy fall season for Red Hat as we’ve been on the road for several events. November is no different and we’ll be traveling across North America from New York to San Jose and hitting several cities in between. Red Hat is a sponsor of InfoWorld’s Virtualization Executive...

Bilski And Software Patents – Good News for FOSS

November 3, 2008

by Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP

Last week the Federal Circuit issued a major decision, In re Bilski, concerning the subject matter limits of patent law. The case presented questions relating to software patents, an issue of great significance to the free and open source software community, and so Red Hat filed a brief in...