Where’s Red Hat This October?

by Events Team

North America

The 2008 Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference (RHGUDC) will be held on October 7 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The event will showcase innovations and trends in open source technology as it brings together engineers, architects and business decision-makers from federal, state and local government agencies. Attendees will learn about Red Hat’s latest moves in the industry and discuss what’s coming next in virtualization, service oriented architecture, data services and security. This forum will provide an opportunity to receive advice from partners and colleagues, including the United States Marine Corps, on how to build solutions based on open source.

DeLisa Alexander, senior vice president, People + Brand at Red Hat, will be speaking on the “Leadership During Times of High Growth” panel at the Fortune: The Most Powerful Women Conference, held in California from October 1-2, 2008. Now in its tenth year, the event will bring together talented female leaders across many industries to exchange ideas and facilitate conversations about leadership and growth in today’s marketplace.
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Fedora 10 Beta Arrives on the Heels of Fedora Project’s Fifth Anniversary

by Fedora Team

The Fedora Project just marked its fifth anniversary! Our domain name was created on September 24, 2003 at 10:32:11 UTC. Not content to simply eat cake and ice cream, we wanted to use the occasion to give back even more to our community. So we’re celebrating this milestone with the release of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Beta. With a freeze in place on all major features, we’re ready to make final improvements in preparation for the November 2008 launch of Fedora 10.

Check out the Beta release notes and download the Beta to take it for a test drive. With a great line up of enhancements, here are just a few of the Beta highlights:

The Fedora Project also has reason to celebrate after wrapping up a successful Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in Brno, Czech Republic earlier this month. We had around 110 people in attendance for the three-day event, which included sessions and a couple of days devoted to hackfest. Read all about it in Red Hat Magazine where Max Spevack, Red Hat’s manager of Community Architecture, shares highlights from the event.

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Fedora Turns Five!

by Fedora Team

Happy 5th Birthday, Fedora! On September 24, 2008 the Fedora Project celebrated five successful years of leading the advancement of free, open software and content. So don your party hat — we suggest a Fedora — and help us celebrate five years of innovation and a thriving Fedora community that’s primed for many more years to come.

We’ve hit many milestones and would like to share just a few numbers to recap the past 1,826 days:

Red Hat Positioned in Challengers Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products Magic Quadrant

by JBoss Team

We’re proud to share that Red Hat has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the challengers quadrant in the ‘Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products’* report.
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Filed under JBoss on September 22nd, 2008 | Comments Off

NC State Computer Science Embraces FOSS Into Its Curriculum

by Fedora Team

Colleges and universities across the country are increasingly realizing the value and importance of integrating open source software courses into their computer science curriculum. Red Hat and the Fedora Project are excited to stand behind this effort and outreach to academic communities to aid in the process. We’ve partnered with Seneca College, one of the leaders in instituting open source software into its coursework, to bring Fedora to the classroom. Members of the Fedora Project team also went on the road last spring to talk to students and faculty at top computer science schools during the 2008 North America University Tour. A little closer to home, Red Hat’s Raleigh, N.C. neighbor, North Carolina State University, recently turned to Will Cohen, one of our performance tools engineers, to teach its first open source software class.

A graduate-level computer science course, Open Source Software Communications debuted at NC State during the spring 2008 semester as part of the initiative of the NC State Center for Open Software Engineering. Students jumped right in to the open source community as a large portion of their class grade was based on their work throughout the semester with a FOSS project of their choice. Their selections included projects such as ArgoUML, KeePassX, Collabtive and SQLite. Throughout the semester, each student worked with the respective project’s bug-tracking system to fix bugs, participated in testing and proposed and added new features, among other activities. » Read more

Filed under Fedora, Open Source on September 8th, 2008 | Comments Off

Where’s Red Hat This September?

by Events Team

North America

Red Hat hits the road this September for our 2008 North American Red Hat Road Tour. We’ll be visiting 16 cities this fall to share more about open source and its future direction and help attendees shift their open source strategies into full gear. Tracks will focus on Red Hat’s infrastructure and middleware offerings, taking a close look at open source tools to help build enterprise solutions. There will also be opportunities to hear about proven best practices from Red Hat customers. Attendees can network with experts in the industry and participate in round-table discussions to exchange experiences regarding today’s pressing IT challenges.

The Red Hat Road Tour is targeting specific cities seeking professionals responsible for enterprise architecture management, IT operations and standards, system security and management, application development tools and platforms and service oriented architecture (SOA). The 2008 Road Tour kicks off on September 9th in Atlanta. For more information and to see if we’re coming to a city near you, click here.
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JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expands Certified Configurations, Adds More Mainframe & Java SE 6 Support

by JBoss Team

We are pleased to announce that the latest Cumulative Patch for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 and v4.3 has expanded its number of Certified Configurations and has added support for more mainframes and Java SE 6.

The number of certified operating systems, chip architectures and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) configurations has increased from 16 to 29. Red Hat continues to support any configuration that runs on a Certified JVM as a Compatible Configuration. The Cumulative Patch also includes official support for Java SE 6 for JBoss EAP v4.3 using the Sun JDK.
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Red Hat Exchange Partner Alfresco Teams with Red Hat and JBoss to Provide CRIX a Collaborative Platform

by RHX Team

Providing solutions for business problems the open source way — that’s what this case study is all about. Alfresco provides an open source alternative for enterprise content management, which means that enterprises can accelerate collaboration and information sharing using open standards. Open standards allows for choice — a defining attribute of Red Hat solutions.

And because Alfresco is a Red Hat Exchange (RHX) partner, the customer can be confident that the collaborative support relationship between Red Hat and Alfresco will result in world-class service. We’re excited to see customers taking advantage of the value of open source to enable innovation in their specific areas of expertise. To learn more about RHX and find other business solutions, visit http://rhx.redhat.com/.

Filed under RHX, Open Source on August 26th, 2008 | Comments Off

Checking In On Project Spacewalk

by Systems Management Team

Back at this year’s Red Hat Summit in June, we announced that we were open sourcing Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite under the name Project Spacewalk. In the nine weeks or so since the debut of Spacewalk, we’ve been blown away by the level of interest, the contributions and the excitement generated by the project. We’ve seen some cool results delivered quickly and we wanted to share some of Spacewalk’s milestones to date.

With the start of most open source projects, it takes a little while for the user participation and list traffic to drum up to high levels. So, we predicted that it would take months to get Spacewalk ramped up, and some time before we started receiving patches. Well, much to our surprise and excitement, Spacewalk generated early interest and results came much more quickly than we predicted.
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Filed under Systems Management, Open Source on August 26th, 2008 | Comments Off

Software Licensing Train Wreck Averted

by Rob Tiller, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, IP

Court decisions on free and open source software licensing are unusual, and for lawyers who represent open source companies and projects, somewhat anxiety producing. Fortunately, lawsuits over such licenses are rare, because the licenses are effectively enforced informally to the extent necessary by the free and open source community and disputes are generally resolved informally. This is a positive thing; lawsuits are unbelievably wasteful in terms both of money and spirit. But as a consequence, there are few court decisions to serve as legal precedents.

This creates some uncertainties when a case gets to court. Free and open source software is still a relatively new paradigm. A court coming to the area for the first time may not immediately comprehend this paradigm, and in deciding a given case may draw on analogies to older legal rules that do not fit well. That court may just get things wrong. The effect of a single wrong decision is likely to be magnified, because a later court will be more likely to rely on that decision when it is one of few.
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