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OK, that was a little too snide (especially given the respect I have for the Free Software Foundation). But I just read Paul Krill's Infoworld piece on the FSF's attempts to iron out incompatibilities between the GPL and other open source l
I must have been channeling Jason Maynard when I wrote this yesterday about Red Hat's opportunity with RHN and RHX. Jason Maynard of Credit Suisse (yes, the same Maynard that called for Messman's head at Novell and had it handed to him on a
After a bit of a palaver trying to get Travis' press badge for JavaOne we finally made our way down to the floor to dig the scene. Initially it felt like any other trade show--a bit vast and mildly depressing. Then suddenly the sessions let out
First off, in today's executive press roundtable Matthew Szulik noted that Red Hat now signs up 10-15,000 new customers every 90 days. That's a shockingly large number, especially when you consider how many of its major customers it loses.
In an interview, Sun's Ken Drachnik discusses how GlassFish, the open-source Java code, has sped up the development cycle and enabled more sophisticated apps
I'm sitting in Stacie LeGrow's session on open source compliance. It's interesting to hear this topic from Red Hat's perspective, given that you'd think that Red Hat would have every incentive to let open source spread withou
I'm trying to capture glimpses of Matthew's and Brian's statements in this morning's press conference (mostly Matthew speaking). I'm paraphrasing in some cases, so any inaccuracies are my own. On Ubuntu (question asked by Ash
I just flew in for Red Hat Summit (as press and as a partner through RHX), and immediately overheard something of interest from Paul Cormier, EVP of Engineering, Red Hat:Interoperability done in a back room with closed APIs is not interoperability...
Will at MaximumPC did a good job explaining how to get Ubuntu up and running. The only downside is you still need to use the command line...which will definitely freak some people out. Let's see if the Ubuntu community can write some nice GUI ap
My wife, eldest daughter, and I went to see Morrissey in concert last night in Salt Lake City. Morrissey actually answered one of my pleas, singing one of my favorite songs from his early days with The Smiths:Haven't had a dream in a long time/