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Integral Innovation
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| In his keynote speech at the Red Hat Summit
| in Boston, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst made
| the case that of the $1.3 trillion USD
| spent in 2009 on Enterprise IT globally,
| $500 billion was essentially wasted (due to
| new project mortality and Version 2.0-
| itis). Moreover, because the purpose of IT
| spending is to create value (typically
| $6-$8 for each $1 of IT spend), the $500
| billion waste in enterprise IT spending
| translates to $3.5 trillion of lost
| economic value. He goes on to explain that
| with the right innovationsâin software
| business models, software architectures,
| software technologies, and applicationsâwe
| can get full value from the money that's
| being wasted today, reinforcing the thesis
| that innovation trumps cost savings.
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http://opensource.com/business/10/6/integral-innovation
Red Hat, Inc. Q1 2011 Earnings Call Transcript
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| Revenues rose 20% to $209.1 million & net
| income rose 30.3% to $24.1 million or 12
| cents a share. Operating cash flow of $61
| million was in line with Q1 last year. Non-
| GAAP operating expense came in at $126
| million up 3% sequentially and 16% year-
| over-year. Non-GAAP operating income was
| $52 million.
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http://www.123jump.com/earnings-calls/Red-Hat-Inc.-Q1-2011-Earnings-Call-Transcript/39365/
Kernel Issues - The "Hurricane Katrina" of programming
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| Last week I spent two days that the Red Hat
| Summit in Boston. Unlike a lot of
| conferences I attend, I actually spent much
| of my time in technical talks listening to
| some of the things that Red Hat was going
| to be putting into RHEL 6.0 which is due
| out in a short time1.
|
| I enjoy listening to technical talks,
| particularly ones talking about kernel
| issues since I used to teach operating
| system design. I taught other types of
| programming (database, compiler design,
| networking, graphics) but in my opinion
| most application-level programming
| (including libraries) is a âcalm seaâ
| versus the âHurricane Katrinaâ of kernel
| programming.
|
| One of the areas of interest to me was the
| various file systems being supported in the
| upcoming RHEL, not only the various
| attributes of the filesystems (that I could
| also get by reading various white papers
| and reports on the Internet) but some of
| the lower-level âgrunt workâ that needs to
| be done to make sure the files system is
| dependable and efficient under different
| loads.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Kernel-Issues-The-Hurricane-Katrina-of-programming
Red Hatâs Partner Progress: A Reality Check
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| Red Hatâs virtualization pitch is pretty
| simple: The company claims RHEV is more
| scalable and lower cost than VMware. But
| Red Hat concedes it has to improve the
| management tools surrounding RHEV. It
| sounds like Red Hat eventually hopes to
| leapfrog VMware with a potent combo (the
| forthcoming RHEL 6 and RHEV 2.3 releases)
| over the long haul.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/28/red-hats-partner-progress-a-reality-check/
Recent:
RHEL 5.5 - extra lube for your KVMs
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| So what did I make of the RHEL 5.5 beta? I
| found it to be, well, quite nice. It was my
| first exposure to RHEL directly, though I'm
| familiar with CentOS, and indeed, aside from
| the prominent Red Hat branding, things
| looked and behaved much like CentOS.
|
| [...]
|
| Ahead of that release, I'd say the beta
| provides a solid update for RHEL. The new
| KVM tools and additional device support will
| make RHEL 5.5 well worth the upgrade when
| the final release does arrive later this
| year.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/23/red_hat_5_5_review/
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