March 23, 2009
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Oracle is not buying Red Hat The rumor mill has it that Oracle may be buying Red Hat. Don’t believe it. All it took was one mention that Oracle might do well to own Red Hat, but that the timing … Continue reading
March 17, 2009
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Cisco isn’t happy with just being the data center and Internet networking big dog. The company now wants, with its Unified Computing System, to be the data center alpha dog. Cisco will be producing its own high-end 64-bit blade servers … Continue reading
February 25, 2009
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In 2007, Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, hit an all-time low. Users were leaving it behind in favor of Ubuntu and openSUSE Well-known Linux evangelist Eric S. Raymond, after looking at the latest release, Fedora Core 6, dismissed Fedora … Continue reading
February 23, 2009
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Now that Red Hat has shown its KVM cards in the great virtualization Texas Hold’em poker game, you can safely bet that Novell will soon be joining up with Microsoft and Citrix to try to shove VMware out of the … Continue reading
February 23, 2009
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Red Hat used to be in the desktop business along with all the other Linux distributors. Then, they left. As Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat’s CEO, explained Red Hat’s desktop approach to me last year, “There are companies that sell hundreds … Continue reading
February 23, 2009
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Despite Red Hat’s surprising announcement last week that it would be partnering with Microsoft on virtualization, on February 23rd, Red Hat’s announced that it would be switching its virtualization strategy from a mix of virtualization programs, including the Microsoft-friendly Xen, … Continue reading