New versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE
When you're talking Linux, three big names always pop up: Canonical's Ubuntu, Novell's openSUSE and Red Hat's Fedora. Each of these "big three" has recently released a new version of its distribution, which means it's time to check them out and decide which is No 1. Or, more properly, which is No. 1 for what user.
Will Capgemini convince enterprises to trust cloud?
Large tech vendors such as Sun Microsystems and Red Hat, small ones like Elastra and RightScale, and even consultancy Capgemini are all clamoring to help big businesses get on Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud offering, or EC2.
Red Hat offers 18-month term for enterprise maintenance
Red Hat Thursday unveiled a new service that makes it more cost-effective for its customers to run one version of RHEL for a longer period of time.
Red Hat invests in open-source BI vendor JasperSoft
Red Hat has invested in open-source business-intelligence vendor JasperSoft as part of a $12.5 million round of funding.
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By Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz; Published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne
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