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Matt Asay nods approvingly at a recent study saying more CIOs plan to invest in Red Hat and JBOSS technology.
Well and good. Just don’t break out the champagne.
Open source may be doing well with a shrinking waterhole but that does not necessarily mean it is doing well.
Open source and the shrinking waterhole [...]

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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst issued a statement on Monday applauding President Obama for bringing a culture of openness and participatory governance to the White House. According to Whitehurst, the Obama administration’s commitment to transparency and inclusiveness reflects the same values that are found at the core of the community-driven open source software [...]

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Red Hat’s CEO, in a blog post on Monday, is endorsing the Obama Administration’s call for openness and participation in government by likening the President’s statement to the open source software movement.
Linking to a White House statement in which President Obama calls for transparency, participation, and collaboration in government, Red [...]

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It’s been exactly a year since former Delta Airlines vice president turned Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst criticized open-source vendors for doing a lousy job of getting customers involved in the community and projects.
Twelve months on, how are things looking?
Little has changed, judging by the general level of hand-wringing [...]

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SINGAPORE–Local institute of learning, Republic Polytechnic, has partnered IBM and Red Hat to groom IT professionals with expertise to meet rising adoption of open source software and mainframe virtualization.
The institute has launched a new course that provides training on IBM’s System z mainframe based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
At a media briefing Wednesday, [...]

Once a missionary, always a missionary.
That’s the thought I had while reading Red Hat chairman Matthew Szulik’s recent op-ed piece on improving North Carolina’s economic competitiveness. Szulik, who led Red Hat for over a decade, was known for an almost evangelical zeal for open source.
I found it inspirational; Red Hat competitors found it unsettling.
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Leading Linux distributor Red Hat is defending its position on software patents. Rob Tiller, Red Hat’s assistant general counsel and intellectual property VP, wrote Tuesday that the company’s position on patents and in support of open source has not changed:
“Red Hat has a a long track record of supporting FOSS generally, [...]

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Cisco Systems’ much-publicized push into the server business counts Red Hat among its supporters – a move that could offer another path for Red Hat’s software into corporate data centers.
Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), the San Jose tech giant, said Monday that plans to sell servers for data centers, the locations that house big companies’ [...]

Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, today announced that it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense ESI Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) for Open Source Solutions. The contract encompasses software and support services from Red Hat, JBoss, Alfresco, Pentaho, MySQL, and CollabNet.
“This BPA is significant on several levels, as it affirms [...]

Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL)’s chief Linux technologist, Wim Coekaerts, said Oracle is making an important contribution to Linux reliability by extensively testing the Oracle database system on the open source operating system. And he has some free advice for competitor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT).
Oracle reports all bugs it finds and bug fixes that it makes to [...]