I woke up this morning and checked out Red Hat’s web site, after receiving an email from my contact at Red Hat Corporate Communications. What did I see? UNFAKEABLE LINUX in a mega-font. Red Hat has posted a response to the Oracle announcement. Take a look. At the end of the FAQ page, Red Hat [...]

Earlier today, we reported on our discussions with Mark Shuttleworth on the release of Edgy Eft and the speculation about whether Oracle might announce a partnership or closer business ties with Ubuntu. We weren’t playing All The President’s Men – it wasn’t a major scoop when we said that nothing would happen today between Ubuntu [...]

Rumors buzzed, but nothing during today’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld by Larry Ellison regarding Oracle’s commitment to Linux – possibly in collaboration with a major Linux vendor. Whether Ellison used the word, “Ubuntu” in this speech, we believe that an Oracle-Ubuntu partnership is in the cards, based on an interview this morning with Mark Shuttleworth. [...]

Red Hat announced its fiscal 2007 second quarter earning results yesterday (press release). This was the first quarter that included consolidated JBoss financials. JBoss accounted for $7m of the total $99.7m in revenue for the quarter. Although Red Hat indicated that this was the 6th consecutive quarter adding more than 10,000 new customers and the [...]

Red Hat made an announcement yesterday concerning its acquisition of JBoss. The deal closed over 90 days ago and Red Hat was ready to talk specifics about integrating JBoss’ products and services into the Red Hat portfolio. This announcement has two main components: JBoss subscriptions are now available through Red Hat’s global channel partners, providing [...]

Marc Fleury, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the JBoss division of Red Hat (formerly CEO of JBoss, Inc.), has posted a blog entry, “Wall Street, Oracle and Game Theory,” about the viability of Oracle Linux. It’s a bit more detailed than what I’d expect from an SVP of a public company regarding potential [...]

I am pleased the announce today the we have officially launched the 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Service and the first CAOS Report – “Stack and Deliver,” covering the open source stack provider space. For more details on these announcements, I invite you to take a look at the two press releases [...]

Last week, I attended LinuxWorld San Francisco to meet with vendors, participate in a Mobile Linux panel, and to simply experience the main LinuxWorld event. Although IDG World Expo produces LinuxWorld in more than 15 countries, LinuxWorld San Francisco is the flagship event. This was my first time as an attendee of LinuxWorld San Francisco, [...]

Computer Reseller News (CRN) Australia has posted an article today by Paula Rooney entitled “Red Hat a no-show at LinuxWorld.” I’m still at LinuxWorld (expect a recap posting tomorrow) and the absence of Red Hat on the expo floor is one of the main topics within the media room amongst journalists and analysts. Who knows [...]

In Part I of our multi-part series of discussions with Canonical CEO and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, Shuttleworth covered the delay in the release of Dapper, and something of a history of the open source and free software movements. In Part II, Shuttleworth spoke specifically about Dapper in the Enterprise, and a bit about how [...]

Fault-tolerant systems vendor Stratus Technologies has offered a Linux option on its x86-based ftServer hardware since 2002 – but it’s never really taken off, largely because it was a non-standard distribution, with all the problems that brings for ISVs, compatibility etc. Just recently, however, Stratus and its technology partner NEC have been showing off a [...]

Recently, Ubuntu founder and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke with The 451 Group at length about Dapper, Ubuntu, and the trends and development of the open source and free software movements as they relate to enterprise information technology. Last week, we ran Part I of a multi-part series in which The 451 Group presents Shuttleworth’s [...]

Sun Microsystems and Canonical issued a joint press release yesterday regarding Ubuntu support for the UltraSPARC T1 processor and the related Sun server line. We touched upon this topic in part one of our interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, late last week. While this news was expected, based on Mark Shuttleworth’s appearance [...]

Recently, Ubuntu founder and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke with The 451 Group at length about Dapper, Ubuntu, and the trends and development of the open source and free software movements as they relate to enterprise information technology. In this multi-part series, The 451 Group will present Shuttleworth’s comments along with insight and commentary from [...]

The Kororaa project, a binary installation of Gentoo Linux, has received a note that it may be in violation of the GPL, as the project includes proprietary binary video drivers from ATI and NVIDIA along with the Linux kernel, released under the GPL. The post on the Kororaa site does not indicate whether the note [...]

Open Source & Free Software At The 451 Group When we talk about the model of open source and free software in the enterprise not being a zero-sum or all-or-nothing endeavor, we’re pointing not just to knowledge gained through our regular discussions with vendors, but also to our own experience. The 451 Group is not [...]

I’m at the Linux on Wall Street Conference today in New York City. The web site lists the conference as “Linux on Wall Street”, but the show guide prominently displays “Linux/Open Source on Wall Street” – a sign of greater diversity. While the exhibition area is dominated by Linux hardware vendors and the big guys [...]

As we’re working our way through the world’s Linux distros – see comments to Raven’s post a few days ago for interesting discussion about Miracle Linux – thoughts of some have turned to Ubuntu. Wonder what Mark Shuttleworth would have to say about that? I think we’ll find out soon enough. And here’s a good [...]

I mentioned that during Linux World Boston I had picked up books from several publishers – another one was Apress, which has just released Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional by Keir Thomas. It’s an interesting read because it marks a transition from the typical full-blown Linux distro guide to one more similar in [...]

Stephen Shankland at CNET News.com just posted an article entitled, “VMware-friendly change likely for Linux“, regarding a move away from the standardization of Xen as the virtualization technology in the Linux kernel. This move seems to be due, in part, by lobbying from VMWare, a commercial provider of virtualization technology. An interesting tidbit from the [...]