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Article | 4/02/2011 Red Hat, Google challenge software patents
Red Hat, Google, Dell, and several other companies have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging "poor quality" software patents,...
Article | 3/02/2011 Myriad updates come to open source software
January was a busy month for open source software, with numerous packages receiving key updates and improvements. Since so many have been released in ...
Article | 28/01/2011 Linux vendors teaming up for an app store
There seems to be no end to the momentum propelling Linux into the mainstream these days, and this week news came out that's surely among the most exc...
Article | 6/01/2011 New Linux kernel strengthens SMP support
The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocess...
Article | 16/12/2010 Red Hat buddies up with Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus Systems has struck a partnership with Red Hat that should ultimately ease the deployment of Eucalyptus private cloud platform on Red Hat so...
Article | 8/12/2010 Red Hat working on complex event processing software
Red Hat will&nbsp; preview next week a CEP (complex event processing) capability being added to the company's open source business rules managemen...
Article | 1/12/2010 Red Hat acquires Makara
Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat has acquired cloud software provider Makara, Red Hat announced Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disc...
Article | 23/11/2010 Microsoft's hand in Novell deal bodes ill for Linux
Attachmate may be the primary purchasing party in the Novell acquisition deal announced today, but the involvement of Microsoft means there's a fresh ...
Article | 11/11/2010 Red Hat releases RHEL 6
Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.
Article | 4/11/2010 Cloud and virtualisation features set Fedora 14 apart
Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, and it's packed with a raft of new features designed to enhance the experience for users...
Article | 22/10/2010 VMware angles Spring as premier Java development tool
Oracle may own the Java trademark, but VMware is touting its own Spring framework as the best programming model for enterprise Java developers.
Article | 21/10/2010 Red Hat CEO: Software vendor model is broken
The current model of selling commercial enterprise software is broken, charged the CEO for Red Hat. It is too expensive, doesn't address user needs an...
Article | 16/10/2010 Get support for open source software
One of the most persistent myths surrounding Linux and other open source software is that there's no easy way to get good support. Just this week, for...
Article | 29/09/2010 OpenOffice.org breaks away from Oracle with new foundation
Most of the volunteers and vendors behind OpenOffice.org have decided to create a new foundation that will be independent from Oracle and speed up imp...
Article | 30/09/2010 Linux roundup: Fedora 14 gets MeeGo, Madriva is reborn
There's never a dull moment in the land of Linux, and recent weeks have been no exception. Since no outlet can hope to give full coverage to every dev...