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[News] Red Hat Makes Its Free Software Business Case, Upgraded by Banksters (GS)

  • Subject: [News] Red Hat Makes Its Free Software Business Case, Upgraded by Banksters (GS)
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:38:50 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Red Hat defends its subscription license model for Linux

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| Anyone finding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscriptions a tough sell for 
| management used to Microsoft's one-time license fee for Windows must emphasize 
| that there are more factors to be considered, chiefly return on investment, 
| Red Hat officials said Friday.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/red-hat-defends-its-subscription-license-model-linux-631

Red Hat's Whitehurst: What Next For Open Source?

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| Red Hat can't match Microsoft or Oracle's marketing budgets, but the open 
| source paradigm gives it an advantage in the long term, chief executive Jim 
| Whitehurst told eWEEK Europe
|
| Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst is on a high after the company's annual 
| customer conference. The event, launched RHEL 5.4, it also   took JBoss 
| middleware to the cloud, and included new cloud projects
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http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/interview/red-hat-s-whitehurst--what-next-for-open-source--1772

Red Hat Announces Finalists in Third Annual Innovation Awards

http://www.your-story.org/red-hat-announces-finalists-in-third-annual-innovation-awards-25495/

Goldman Sachs Upgrades Red Hat (RHT) to Buy

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| Goldman Sachs upgrades Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) from Neutral to Buy and raised 
| their price target from $18 to $28. The firm cited a robust upcoming server 
| cycle, an appealing strategic platform position in the migration to cloud-
| based computing, and "Street" estiamtes are too low.
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http://www.streetinsider.com/Upgrades/Goldman+Sachs+Upgrades+Red+Hat+(RHT)+to+Buy/4925506.html


Recent:

New Red Hat Linux's top five features

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| I've been using RHEL and its twins, CentOS and Oracle Unbreakable Linux,
| since day one, and I like them a lot for business server use. Of these
| releases, RHEL 5.4 is the most impressive of the lot, for these reasons:
|
| 1) Baked-in virtualization.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14653/new_red_hat_linuxs_top_five_features


KVM is the feather in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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| Red Hat has released RHEL 5.4, a major point update of its commercial Linux
| distribution. This version introduces support for KVM, a significant
| milestone in Red Hat's evolving virtualization strategy.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/red-hat-moves-forward-with-kvm-virtualization-in-rhel-54.ars


Fedora, good and bad

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| In the past few days, since Iâve been spending time at my sisterâs house,
| Iâve used as single system the laptop I bought a few months ago, with runs
| Fedora 11. This has been my first time, since I started working in Gentoo,
| that I had to work with just a laptop (if you exclude the hospitalisations)
| and especially the first time since I started using Gentoo that I had to work
| with just another Linux distribution.
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http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/03/fedora-good-and-bad


Red Hat pumps out commercial KVM

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| Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat is hosting its annual summit in Chicago
| this week, and the star of the event was today's launch of Red Hat Enterprise
| Linux 5.4, which sports the first commercially supported KVM hypervisor from
| the company.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/02/redhat_rhel54_launch/


A Few Details On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was just released, but Red Hat engineers have
| already been working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and today a few details
| regarding this next major feature release were learned during the Red Hat
| Summit in Chicago. Details regarding RHEL 6.0 are scant, especially with Red
| Hat being a public company and all, but some new information was gained today
| and some signals of what's coming down the pipe can already be spotted in
| Fedora.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzUwNQ
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