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Red Hat edges ahead of estimates
News Red Hat edged a penny ahead of analyst expectations Tuesday, as the leading Linux seller posted a $1.3m profit before charges for its fiscal third quarter, ended 30 November. Including the charges, Red Hat had a loss of $15m, or 9 cents per share.
[December 19, 2001, 10:45]
Code Red: Alive again and kicking
News The Code Red worm made a quiet comeback Wednesday, with no signs yet of a predicted traffic surge that could affect the functioning of the Internet. As of 9 pm BST on Wednesday, Code Red had infected servers responsible for at least 127,000 Web...
[August 2, 2001, 9:03]
Fedora issues updates after hacker break-in
News The Red Hat-supported Fedora Project has started issuing updates to its Linux distribution again, after a hiatus of several weeks caused by a hacker break-in. US-based Red Hat warned in mid-August that hackers had broken into some of its servers...
[September 11, 2008, 8:53]
Red Hat's results rocket to all-time highs
News Red Hat's quarterly profit and revenue have hit all-time highs, the Linux seller said on Thursday, as it announced an agreement to acquire storage specialist Sistina Software for about $31m (£17.5m) in stock.
[December 19, 2003, 7:35]
Red Hat lifts lid on Fedora
News Red Hat will release the first version of its hobbyist edition of Linux on Thursday, a company executive said, as the software seller tries to improve profitability by splitting its product line. It's coming tomorrow," John Young, vice president of...
[November 6, 2003, 11:20]
Red Hat below expectations, but optimistic
News Red Hat said on Tuesday that it slipped into the red and below analyst expectations for its most recent quarter, but the Linux seller reported revenue growth and progress in selling its premium products for business customers.
[March 26, 2003, 11:22]
Red Hat Q2 results on target
News In its first earnings report as a public company, Red Hat, reported a fiscal second quarter loss in line with expectations Wednesday as sales jumped 95 percent from a year ago. Officials said Red Hat is on a hiring binge.
[September 22, 1999, 16:23]
Red Hat beats analyst forecasts
News Linux seller Red Hat reported on Wednesday that it had outpaced analysts' revenue and profit expectations for its most recent quarter, suggesting they raise future financial projections and boasting of gains against competitors.
[September 29, 2005, 17:35]
Windows sidelined by Fedora bug
News Red Hat's newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn't start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it. The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat...
[June 9, 2004, 8:50]
Photos: Red Hat's beach party
News Red Hat's summit kicked off on Tuesday evening with a welcome reception party which was slightly marred for Red Hat by the fact that the main sponsor of the event was PC maker Dell. The main keynote session on Wednesday morning was led by Red Hat...
[May 11, 2007, 17:04]
Red Hat restructure puts focus on big clients
News Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has restructured to focus on big customers while cutting jobs elsewhere, executives said on Tuesday. Red Hat eliminated its network consulting group, which the company acquired for $47m (£33m...
[March 20, 2002, 10:14]
Companies 'not liable' for Code Red attacks
News Companies that inadvertently spread the Code Red worm to other corporate servers cannot be held liable for causing an Internet attack, say British legal experts. The self-propagating worm, which resurfaced on Wednesday, had raised concerns that...
[August 2, 2001, 14:18]
Intel, Red Hat cure open-source hiccup
News Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project -- a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source...
[February 17, 2003, 8:09]
Red Hat subscriptions surge
News Red Hat's renewal rate for support subscriptions to its high-end Linux product was more than 90 percent in the company's most recent quarter, well above the 75 percent rate the company tells analysts to expect.
[November 19, 2003, 9:25]
Red Hat: Walking the Linux tightrope
News Red Hat's software technology is 100 percent open source. If you want to put us in a box, then the most obvious box is that Red Hat only, exclusively sells and supports open source -- GPL'd software. As the largest stand-alone Linux distribution...
[August 19, 2004, 17:42]
Red Hat promotes embedded Linux
News Linux vendor Red Hat on Wednesday announced a partner programme that will certify manufacturers of appliances which have been integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is the latest move in the company's turn-around over embedded Linux...
[October 15, 2004, 15:35]
SuSE: SCO's anti-Linux attacks are 'curious'
News In the mean time, Linux vendors MandrakeSoft and Red Hat said they had not been contacted about SCO's allegations and did not see them affecting business. Red Hat, by far the largest Linux vendor, said it had not had any conversations with SCO...
[May 15, 2003, 13:46]
Red Hat predicts death of Solaris
News The Red Hat Network systems management tool is to gain the ability to manage software distribution and configuration for Solaris, with Red Hat claiming the features are the "the final nail in the coffin" for Sun's operating system.
[February 16, 2005, 8:50]
FBI criticised for ignoring early Code Red warnings
News The security firm that discovered the destructive Code Red worm has launched an attack on the FBI for its reluctance to publicise the Microsoft vulnerability exploited by the worm. The self-propagating worm infected an estimated 975,000 servers in...
[September 6, 2001, 13:18]
Linux open to backdoor password
News According to Internet Security Systems, there's a backdoor account in Red Hat's Linux that would let a computer intruder access and alter files on some computers running Red Hat's most recent version of Linux.
[April 25, 2000, 13:15]
