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Article | 5/08/2011 Java 8 gears up for the cloud
Now that Java 7 SE (Standard Edition) has officially been released, Oracle and members of the JCP (Java Community Process) have started mulling over w...
Article | 22/07/2011 Linux 3.0 a steady step forward
Bucking standard conventions in software versioning, Linux Torvalds has designated the new release of the Linux operating system kernel, posted Friday...
Article | 13/07/2011 Red Hat speeds JBoss 7 to market
Wasting little time since the last release of its flagship application server, Red Hat has launched the first community trial version for the next gen...
Article | 1/07/2011 30 days with Ubuntu Linux: What I learned
Ubuntu Linux was a pleasant surprise.
Article | 25/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: Enterprise IT software sales up
Oracle, Red Hat, Tibco and Adobe this week showed that software sales, especially for products geared for the enterprise, continue to be strong even t...
Article | 24/06/2011 Red Hat preps real-time messaging stack for the cloud
Anticipating greater use in large-scale cloud deployments, Red Hat has updated its real-time messaging platform with support for new networking and op...
Article | 9/06/2011 Java SE 7 gets thumbs-up from standards committee
The next edition of Java has been approved by a Java Community Process executive committee, but not without some acrimony.
Article | 21/05/2011 Five Linux distributions get a fresh boost
Between the launch of a new Linux kernel update and the news that open source has achieved mainstream business use at last, it's been an exciting week...
Article | 20/05/2011 Big vendors look to challenge VMware with open source
Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote...
Article | 6/05/2011 Red Hat CEO hates patent trolls, but says sometimes you just have to pay up
With Red Hat on the verge of becoming the first billion-dollar company focused exclusively on open source software, it has attracted quite a bit of at...
Article | 5/05/2011 Red Hat bashes Microsoft, VMware while pitching new cloud software
Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in.
Article | 4/05/2011 Red Hat to preview Java caching technology
Red Hat will launch a preview of a new commercial enterprise Java data caching technology, based on its experimental Infinispan data grid software, th...
Article | 3/05/2011 Coming soon: A faster Firefox for Linux users
Linux users' proverbial cup is already overflowing this spring thanks to several recent coups for the open source operating system. Just last week, ho...
Article | 22/04/2011 Google found guilty of patent infringement for using Linux
A jury in the Eastern District of Texas told Google that it owes Bedrock Computer Technologies $5 million in damages for using versions of Linux that ...
Article | 29/04/2011 Linux and Mac OS are fastest-growing operating systems
Microsoft may still dominate the operating system market, but Linux and Apple's Mac OS platforms were the fastest-growing in 2010, according to new da...