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[News] Red Hat's Latest Virtualisation Deal, eCos Comes with Open Source

Red Hat Ups Virtualization With AMD and HP

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| Red Hat has been partnering with chip vendors AMD and Intel for a long time. 
| Every so often though Red Hat will announce something specific with one 
| vendor (or the other) -- that's the case with the announcement today on a 
| speed/functionality announcement with AMD's processors running on HP hardware 
| with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.    
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/red-hat-ups-virtualization-wit.html

This one is sort of open source and it comes with  an Eclipse-based IDE and GNU
utilities:

Open source RTOS kit includes embedded database

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| The eCosPro Developer's Kit brings to the joint product offering all the 
| necessary elements for eCos application development, including Eclipse-based 
| IDE, GNU compiler toolset and utilities, GUI based configuration tool, 
| RedBoot debug and bootstrap firmware - and eCos, the open source RTOS found  
| repeatedly by surveys to be among the most widely used embedded operating 
| systems.    
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http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/ecm/ecm100.html


Yesterday:

Linux still top embedded OS

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| In a new whitepaper on Linux in the embedded market, VDC researchers cite the 
| following reasons for Linux's popularity: 
| 
|     * Licensing cost advantages
|     * Flexibility of source code access
|     * General familiarity
|     * Maturing ecosystem of applications and tools
|     * Growing developer experience with Linux as an embedded OS
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4920597981.html


Recent:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Dramatic Virtualization Performance with HP
Server and AMD Processor Technologies

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| Together, the combined solution offers customers benefits that are not 
| available with competing proprietary solutions, including: 
| 
| -- Support for AMD's Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology;
| 
| -- Support for virtual guests configured with more than four CPUs; and
| 
| -- Fully virtualized performance that approaches the performance of 
| non-virtualized environments. 
| 
| Red Hat has worked with HP and AMD to deliver affordable operational 
| flexibility on all workloads, including high-end applications and databases, 
| by allowing for more efficient use of hardware resources.  
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http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/540636.html


Piper Jaffray Starts Red Hat (RHT) at Buy

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| Piper Jaffray initiates coverage on Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) with a Buy rating and 
| $26 price target, saying the company should benefit from global adoption of 
| open source technologies.  
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http://www.streetinsider.com/New+Coverage/Piper+Jaffray+Starts+Red+Hat+(RHT)+at+Buy/3562655.html


No Recession at Red Hat

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| It is flattering to be mentioned, Mr. Whitehurst said, but he noted that 
| corporate customers and the industry benefit from what he called Red 
| Hat’s “Switzerland status” — not being a province of one of the major powers 
| in the technology industry.   
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/no-recession-at-red-hat/


Linux kernel maintainer calls for embedded specialist

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| The maintainer of Linux 2.6 has called for a full-time, 
| architecture-independent "embedded maintainer." Speaking at a CELF's fourth 
| annual Embedded Linux Conference, Morton also told embedded developers how to 
| select a kernel, get support from the kernel community, and decide whether to 
| submit code to mainline.    
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2083975586.html


Feeling the heat at Microsoft

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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest 
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask 
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?  
| 
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have 
| to go with that. 
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc


Microsoft Worried Over Linux Dominance In Embedded Space

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| Renames its family of products to target the embedded market.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26010/news.htm


Who's afraid of embedded Linux? Microsoft

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| ...Microsoft is fighting a losing battle here. It's like gravity. 
| Eventually you just stop fighting and learn to accept it. Even Microsoft. 
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919632-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad

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