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Red Hat Names Jim Whitehurst, former COO of Delta Airlines, as CEO. Szulik to Continue as Chairman. More here and here. I missed the Red Hat earnings call as I was more interested in RIM (a good Canadian company with awesome products, and whose stock
Red Hat's longtime CEO steps down and is replaced by Delta Airlines COO James Whitehurst; Szulik will remain as chairman of Red Hat's board
In compliance with a European Union ruling, Microsoft has disclosed data on how Windows works to open-source software maker Samba
It was great to read how Apple and Think Secret have settled their long-running law suit and delcared "positive results for both sides." The only downside is that the ThinkSecret site is being shut down. It's like saying the operation
I've been tracking the "Demise of the traditional software market" for some time now. One more data point from Oracle today. Second quarter total revenues were up 28% to $5.3 billion, while quarterly net income was up 35% to $1.3 billi
Maybe this is obvious to everyone already, but a recent study of Microsoft channel partners by IDC shows that Software as a Service is seen as a big opportunity by traditional Software ISV channel partners. - 76% view that SaaS will dramatically impa
SugarCRM has announced the GA version of Sugar 5.0. This includes new features such as improved dashboards with charts and graphs, an AJAX email Client, and a new Module Builder that allows easy customization. It's a major new release and if you
Coding in a parallel toolset has its perks -- freedom, for one
TechIQ, which focuses on the VAR IT channel business, has identified the top 10 open source companies they expect to succeed in 2008. It's a good article and although it includes some obvious choices, it also includes a few well-thought out surp
By now, some of you have read that several analysts downgraded Red Hat due to Red Hat's execution of the JBoss acquisition. I chose not to blog the story because, well, it's about the performance of a competitor (JBoss) to IBM WebSphere App