Red Hat Offers Improved Open Source Options To Global Developers
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| The race is on then: Windows, Solaris/Open Solaris, Red Hat Linux -- on
| various types of platform iterations -- for the best story when it comes to
| hosting price-performance and deployment ease experience. Red Hat is aiming
| high on this one. And it has a pretty good shot at doing it very well.
|
| Red Hat is boldly predicting it can, by 2015, double its market share and
| support more than half the worlds server instances. And they didn't even use
| the "grid" or "utility" words, not once.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/53351-red-hat-offers-improved-open-source-options-to-global-developers?source=yahoo
Red Hat announces ISV appliance platform
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| RHAOS is built from RHEL 5.1; it shares full ABI and API compatibility with
| RHEL 5.1. It also includes the Virtual Appliance Development Kit, which will
| allow ISVs to easily configure the operating system along with their
| middleware and applications to produce a complete system image.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7494782949.html
Recruiting software talent: interview with Lisa Alexander, vp human capital,
Red Hat
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| Red Hat Software participates in high-profile projects, such as One Laptop
| Per Child, and many of its employees are high-profile contributors to open
| source projects used outside the company.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110607-red-hat.html
Related:
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
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| Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls
| 12 percent, Evans Data says
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html
Linux contributor base broadens
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| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html
Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development
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| "We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on
| 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that
| Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing
| the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904052
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
|
| [...]
|
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
|
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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