http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/ en-us (c) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Press Releases 12 May 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/ibm_summit_keynote.html Raleigh, NC - May 12, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jim Stallings, general manager of Enterprise Systems Division at IBM Systems and Technology Group, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit, taking place in Boston, Mass. June 18-20, 2008. Stallings will deliver his partner keynote presentation on the opening day of the Red Hat Summit, following a keynote speech by Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst. Additional Red Hat Summit keynote speakers include John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Medical School, Joel Cohen, Co-Creator of The Simpsons and Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens. 8 May 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/middleware_momentum.html Raleigh, NC - May 8, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions have been recognized in two recent analyst reports. Independent technology analyst firm Forrester Research has included JBoss Enterprise Middleware solutions in its latest report on the application server marketplace. JBoss was included in Forrester's April 25, 2008 "Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions" report, which surveyed application development professionals to determine their perceptions regarding the quality of available application servers. Red Hat was also included in recent research by Gartner, Inc., which positioned the company for the third time in the Leader's Quadrant for its Magic Quadrant report on the enterprise application server marketplace. 6 May 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/jboss_ON.html Raleigh, NC - May 6, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today the release of JBoss Operations Network (ON) 2.0, an integrated middleware management platform that simplifies application development, testing, deployment and monitoring. The release of JBoss ON 2.0 represents continued momentum for the Enterprise Acceleration initiative announced earlier this year, which is aimed at fostering adoption of JBoss Enterprise Middleware by increasing its capabilities for large-scale enterprise use. Available in modular format, JBoss ON 2.0 provides organizations with an end-to-end application management solution to coordinate the many stages of the application lifecycle and improve operational efficiency through a single integrated tool. 11 February 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/jbw_webcast.html Raleigh, NC - February 11, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that members of the Red Hat management team will host two middleware strategy press conferences that will be broadcast live via webcast from JBoss World Orlando, taking place at the Marriot Orlando World Center Resort February 13-15, 2008. 11 February 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/bidmc.html Raleigh, NC - February 11, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston, Mass., has migrated to Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network. Red Hat solutions have provided BIDMC with significant cost savings, higher system availability and streamlined disaster recovery, creating an opportunity to enhance patient care. 5 February 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/sap.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SAP AG has certified the SAP® Business Suite family of business applications and the SAP NetWeaver® platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM System z mainframes. Red Hat customers can now capitalize on the mainframe's robust security capabilities and support for deploying their SAP applications. 3 February 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/asiapacific.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the appointment of Yuji Fujita as Chairman of Red Hat Japan (Red Hat KK), with an expanded portfolio as Director of Red Hat Asia Pacific, responsible for Japanese OEM partners. Red Hat also announced the appointment of Yuji Hirokawa as President of Red Hat KK, succeeding Fujita. 22 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/searchenterpriselinux.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been selected as Gold medalist winner in the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com 2007 'Products of the Year' awards, in the Linux Server Distributions category. This annual award is presented by the editors of TechTarget's Data Center Media Group. 21 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/jboss_innovation_awards.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of the JBoss Innovation Awards 2008. In its second year, the awards program is designed to recognize individuals, project teams and companies for technical achievements that show both creative thinking and determined problem solving with JBoss solutions. 21 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/lotusphere.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM today announced a new marketing initiative with Lotus Open Collaboration Client Solution for Red Hat, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises. The initiative combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes Client with Lotus Symphony and IBM Lotus Domino 8 server. The joint Lotus Solution Bundle will easily and cost-effectively allow customers to deploy Lotus Notes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the desktop to experience enhanced collaboration, productivity and security with a compelling return on investment. 15 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/corte_dei_conti.html Raleigh, NC - January 15, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Corte dei Conti, an Italian government institution that safeguards public finance and guarantees the respect of jurisdictional order in Italy, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its server farm, consisting mainly of HP BL20 G3 and BL20 G2 blade servers. Corte dei Conti's Red Hat solution is integrated with multiple different internal systems, including Oracle software largely used in the Court's IT system. 14 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/jboss_keynote.html Raleigh, NC - January 14, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Yefim Natis, Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, will keynote at JBoss World Orlando 2008. JBoss World Orlando, taking place February 13-15, 2008 at the Marriott Orlando World Center Resort, will feature industry-leading speakers exploring JBoss solutions and general open source middleware technologies. 03 January 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/summit_papers.html Raleigh, NC - January 3, 2008 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the call for papers for the fourth-annual Red Hat Summit, taking place June 18-20, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Mass., is now open. 18 December 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/fratelli_carli.html Raleigh, NC - December 18, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Fratelli Carli, an Italian olive oil manufacturer, has standardized its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to streamline the processing of orders and maintain system response times below one second through periods of peak demand. Since implementing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM Mainframe System z, the company has experienced increased levels of performance and simplification of communication within the mainframe. 17 December 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/virtual_training.html Raleigh, NC - December 17, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of two new North American training offerings that are delivered by open source technology. Red Hat will offer virtual training to students in remote locations and Live Access Labs that allow students access to remotely hosted Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. 17 December 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/italian_ministry.html Raleigh, NC - December 17, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has selected Red Hat solutions to power the organization's mission-critical applications. The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened performance, and is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical applications, including its "Service Personale Tesoro" (SPT) application, which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites. 10 December 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/jboss_devstudio.html Raleigh, NC - December 10, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of JBoss Developer Studio, the first open source, Eclipse-based, integrated development environment combining tooling with runtime. JBoss Developer Studio provides a simple, powerful and easy-to-use solution for developers utilizing JBoss Enterprise Middleware. The solution provides a stable end-to-end, lifecycle environment for application development and deployment, enabling enterprises to respond more quickly and efficiently to rapidly changing business requirements. 4 December 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/mrg.html Raleigh, NC - December 4, 2007 - iRed Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid), offering new capabilities for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and third-party operating platforms that further strengthen Red Hat's position as the strategic supplier for critical enterprise applications in highly demanding environments, such as Financial Services and Government agencies. Red Hat Enterprise MRG is a revolutionary distributed computing platform that provides exceptional performance through reliable enterprise messaging, realtime capabilities and advanced grid and high-throughput computing technologies. 3 December 2007 11:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/CIO_Insight_Study.html RALEIGH, N.C. - December 3, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has been named the leader in vendor value and satisfaction by Ziff Davis’ 2007 "CIO Insight Vendor Value" study, which polls IT executives on the value and reliability delivered by vendors. This marks the third time in four years that the company has been ranked first of all global vendors evaluated in the study, and the fourth consecutive year Red Hat has been named the most valuable software vendor. 28 November 2007 11:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/EsSalud.html RALEIGH, N.C. - November 28, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that EsSalud, a state-owned insurance and service provider in Peru offering medical and economic benefits that cover eight million regularly insured parties and successors, has experienced success with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. With the solution's virtualization capabilities, the company has stabilized its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project. 26 November 2007 11:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/amazon_ec2.html RALEIGH, N.C. - November 26, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the public beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud and changes the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. 19 November 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/jboss_channel.html Raleigh NC, Nov. 19 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that its JBoss middleware software solutions are being embraced by value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators and customers around the world since the debut of Red Hat's JBoss channel program in 2007. In less than one year's time, Red Hat has teamed with nearly 20 JBoss-specific channel partners in North America and over 50 JBoss-specific channel partners in EMEA, with numbers increasing worldwide. The success of the JBoss channel program signifies the growing demand for JBoss and open source middleware software solutions. 13 November 2007 11:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/platform_computing.html SUPERCOMPUTING, RENO, Nevada, November 13, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement with Platform Computing, the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure software, to jointly offer a new product, the Red Hat HPC Solution, that fully integrates Platform's Open Cluster Stack1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new offering provides users with an end-to-end solution with a range of tools necessary to deploy and manage an HPC cluster in a wide range of environments, from SMB to Enterprise, while offering competitive pricing and outstanding performance. 12 November 2007 11:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/fedora8.html RALEIGH, N.C. - November 12, 2007 - The Fedora Project, a Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced that installations of the latest version of its distribution, Fedora 8, have reached beyond 54,000 since its availability on Nov. 8, 2007. Fedora 8 enhancements include the expanded ability for users to create custom spins or appliances, increased security features, a new look and feel and numerous technical advances. 7 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/virtualization.html Raleigh, NC - November 7, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, with integrated virtualization. This release provides the most compelling platform for customers and software developers ever, with its industry-leading virtualization capabilities complementing Red Hat's newly announced Linux Automation strategy. It offers the industry’s broadest deployment ecosystem, covering standalone systems, virtualized systems, appliances and web-scale "cloud" computing environments. 7 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/amazon.html Raleigh, NC - November 7, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters. 7 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/appliance_platform.html Raleigh, NC - November 7, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its plans to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to deliver appliance-based solutions to their customers, broadening their market reach while minimizing their development and support costs. The Red Hat Appliance Operating System will allow applications that are certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to be deployed as software appliances on the broadest range of servers in the industry, including those running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX and Microsoft Windows Viridian. Red Hat’s Linux Automation strategy, also announced today, delivers a standardized development, deployment and management infrastructure for the entire Red Hat Enterprise Linux ecosystem. 7 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/virtualized_cloud_appliance_deployments.html Raleigh, NC - November 7, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its strategy to solve the key problems facing IT by enabling increased operational choice, flexibility and efficiency. Increasing IT complexity and server capacity, coupled with application proliferation, requires new automation paradigms that allow CIOs to handle rapidly changing business needs. As the leading open source infrastructure company, Red Hat uniquely enables customers to automate and simplify their Linux infrastructure, allowing any application to run on any server, at any time. 5 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/sun_java.html Raleigh, NC - November 5, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems to advance open source Java(TM) software. Red Hat has signed Sun's broad contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-led open source projects by all Red Hat engineers. 1 November 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/jboss_common_criteria.html Raleigh, NC - November 1, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support. 23 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/italian.html Raleigh, NC - October 23, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support. 22 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/snsbank.html Raleigh, NC - October 22, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SNS Bank, one of the top five banks in the Netherlands, is deploying front-end applications for the Bank’s transaction and payments processing system on JBoss Application Server. The transaction and payments processing system, called the SNS Administration System (SAS), provides services to over 3,300 workstations that produce over 500,000 transactions on a daily basis at the Bank’s branches across the Netherlands. 17 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/vanwyk.html Raleigh, NC - October 17, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the appointment of Nick Van Wyk to the role of Senior Transformation Executive, in addition to his current role as Vice President, Global Operations. Van Wyk is responsible for the execution of all elements of Red Hat's operations, including subscription management, sales operations and channel operations. In addition, Van Wyk will lead a recently developed Transformation Team charged with the development of processes and systems to improve global operating efficiency and performance. 16 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/rhgudc.html Raleigh, NC - October 16, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the third-annual Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference to be held on Nov. 1, 2007 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. The Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference, hosted by Carahsoft Technology Corp., is the only event where participants gather under one roof to share new strategies for maximizing the capabilities of Linux and open source technologies in government with the Red Hat development team, hundreds of government users, open source innovators and technology partners. 15 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/sesco.html Raleigh, NC - October 15, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SESCO Enterprises, a leading electricity and natural gas trading company, has deployed Red Hat solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to facilitate the creation of a high-performance infrastructure to support its rapid database growth. The company has since experienced cost-savings, flexiblity and heightened performance and reliability. 10 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/partnercenter.html Raleigh, NC - October 10, 2007 - Raleigh, NC - October 10, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the launch of the Red Hat Partner Center, an online resource offering a centralized place for Red Hat partners to more easily and seamlessly conduct business with Red Hat. Through the global Red Hat Partner Center, partners around the world will have access to product, program, pricing and training information on Red Hat and JBoss solutions and services from one single location. 10 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/jbia.html Raleigh, NC - October 10, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the second annual JBoss Innovation Awards to be presented at JBoss World Orlando, taking place February 13-15, 2008. Nominations are now open for JBoss customers, partners and open source community members around the world. 10 October 2007 8:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/sixbell.html Raleigh, NC - October 1, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Sixbell Nekotec Solutions, a leading Latin American telecommunications company, is experiencing heightened flexibility, increased cost savings and enhanced performance after migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 25 September 2007 16:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/cook_agiry.html Raleigh, NC - September 25, 2007 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the promotion of Mark E. Cook to Vice President, Finance and Controller and the appointment of Paul Argiry as Vice President and Treasurer. Both will report to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Charlie Peters. 25 September 2007 16:00:00 EDT http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/secondquarter.html Raleigh, NC - September 25, 2007 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2007. Red Hat's current fiscal year will end February 29, 2008.