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Red Hat makes another embedded Linux acquisition
News Red Hat has announced an agreement to purchase privately-held WireSpeed Communications, for approximately one and a half million shares of Red Hat stock. WireSpeed, a developer of network and telecommunications software components for embedded...
[June 15, 2000, 7:43]
Red Hat buys e-commerce firm
News Red Hat will issue stock worth $85.6m (£53m) in exchange for the firm, which makes e-commerce payment processing software. Linux developer Red Hat will acquire privately held Hell's Kitchen Systems, the companies said today.
[January 5, 2000, 14:35]
Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog Comment It would be interesting to find out if Red Hat has been successful in the UK with its Identity Management or Red Hat Exchange Packaged products. Does Red Hat have many UK customers deploying Linux? Attitudes towards commodity Open Source...
[May 22, 2008, 11:27]
Red Hat releases Fedora 11
News Red Hat has officially released Fedora 11, a Linux distribution for developers that is a testbed for features for its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product. Fedora 11 also comes with the MinGW Windows cross compiler, which allows...
[June 11, 2009, 15:35]
Red Hat unveils next enterprise Linux
News In exchange, Red Hat promised a version that met industry partners' needs and that would change less frequently so that hardware makers, software companies and customers wouldn't have to spend all their time keeping up with fast-moving Linux.
[October 22, 2003, 8:55]
Red Hat sees revenue rise but profit fall
News Its JBoss acquisition gives it a major opportunity to extract more revenue from its sizeable customer base, and it also plans to launch this year a programme called the Red Hat Exchange to sell open-source software allies' products.
[March 30, 2007, 9:16]
Red Hat misses estimates -- splits stock
News Red Hat missed estimates by a penny Monday in its third quarter, but said it would issue a 2-for-1 stock split. Red Hat reported a loss of $3.6m, or a nickel a share, on sales of $5.4m. In the third quarter a year ago, Red Hat broke even on sales...
[December 20, 1999, 13:33]
Red Hat below expectations, but optimistic
News In a conference call, Red Hat chief financial officer Kevin Thompson attributed the lack of profitability to unfavourable exchange rates in foreign countries, which cost the company $900,000 in the quarter, and to slower than expected sales of...
[March 26, 2003, 11:22]
Red Hat expands open source stack
News Linux distributor Red Hat bulked up its open source enterprise server offering on Thursday by adding support for another open source mail product. Open source collaboration toolset Open-Xchange Server 5, which until now was only available on Novell...
[July 15, 2005, 13:40]
Red Hat upgrades kernel to 2.6
News Linux seller Red Hat is expected to announce the latest version of its premium Linux product on Tuesday, leapfrogging rival Novell and expanding an effort to coax customers away from Sun. Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHEL 4) is the first...
[February 15, 2005, 11:15]
Red Hat, Sun to boost desktop Linux
News Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday. Red Hat, the top seller of Linux software and services, will release in coming months a new version of its software for...
[August 14, 2002, 8:21]
Open source application service launched by Red Hat
Blog Red Hat has launched its answer to Salesforce.com's Application Exchange portal. Known as RHX (Red Hat Exchange) the online portal is positioned to provide IT professionals with a one-stop shop to find open source applications that are optimised to...
[May 10, 2007, 17:33]
Fedora 11 to get link to Exchange
News Release 11 of Red Hat's Fedora project will include a technology designed to give any email client native access to Microsoft Exchange. Currently, Evolution has the 'Exchange connector', however this uses WebDAV and is highly susceptible to changes...
[June 3, 2009, 15:37]
Red Hat applies for NYSE listing
News Open-source software company Red Hat announced on Friday that it has filed an application to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. We believe that listing on the New York Stock Exchange will increase Red Hat's visibility among...
[November 21, 2006, 9:06]
Red Hat finds home in heart of capitalism
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates once likened the open-source movement to communism, but there was little evidence of that on Tuesday when Linux specialist Red Hat took over the New York Stock Exchange. Red Hat's chief executive Matthew Szulik was on...
[December 12, 2006, 16:31]
Red Hat adopts Novell's code
News Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has adopted an email enhancement that its rival Novell recently released as open-source software. And on Wednesday, Red Hat said it included the software in a test version of the third update...
[July 23, 2004, 9:20]
Red Hat chief: We are hard to do business with
News Red Hat Exchange (RHX), launched at last year's summit in May, was an example of where the company had listened to customer feedback and changed its processes accordingly, said Whitehurst. RHX was basically a portal to allow Red Hat customers to...
[June 19, 2008, 12:57]
Linux goes mission-critical for Danish government
News The data-exchange system uses open-source application server JBoss running on Red Hat Linux. The JBoss server, running on Red Hat Linux, takes care of the transactional exchange of data. The Ministry of Finance in Denmark has implemented an open...
[September 23, 2004, 15:30]
Red Hat's restatement prompts lawsuits
News Red Hat's stock plunged 23 percent on Tuesday after the company announced the change and that the Securities and Exchange Commission had submitted a "comment letter" about Red Hat's annual report. At least nine law firms have announced legal...
[July 16, 2004, 8:50]
Red Hat Desktop 4 review
Reviews Red Hat's enterprise credentials are evident when you download the product. The site offers a huge and comprehensive list, which seems to include every version of every operating system Red Hat has ever made.
[November 15, 2005, 15:10]
