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10.18.13

Red Hat Roundup: Claims That OpenStack is on the Rise, New Partnerships, Releases, and More

Posted in GNU/Linux, Red Hat, Servers at 12:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: An overview of recent news about Red Hat, the world’s leader in GNU/Linux server sales

DESPITE growing pains and competition from other “open” options [1], OpenStack has a new release [2] and one of its main backers, Red Hat, claims that it has growth potential [3]. Taking advantage of the whole ‘cloud’ hype, Red Hat is growing closer to Salesforce.com [4] and SAP [5]. A RHEL 5.9 – 5.10 risk report is released [6], with the latest RHEL 6.x now in beta [7]. Red Hat uses the total cost of ownership (TCO) line to claim advantage [8] and its shares are doing reasonably well [9-10]. Despite RHEL not being free (gratis) [11], free derivatives continue to exist [12] and be made public. Techrights runs the latest CentOS, which is essentially a rebranded RHEL. █

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  1. Being on the napkin

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  5. Red Hat Loves SAP, It’s Official

    Red Hat has gone public with the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5. With predictable labels like “better scalability and manageability”, there is also some real meat on the bones for those prepared to chew deeper.

  6. RHEL 5.9 – 5.10 Risk Report Released
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  8. How RHEL trims total cost of ownership (TCO)
  9. 2 Reasons Red Hat Really Shouldn’t Be This Cheap

    Red Hat beat analyst estimates both on earnings and revenues by growing sales 16% year over year and adjusted earnings by 25%. Analysts and investors ignored all this good news to focus on the billings proxy, a forward-looking measure of upcoming revenues. On that measure — on which Red Hat doesn’t offer any guidance — the 8% higher number fell short of Wall Street’s 12% projections. Red Hat has seen this market reaction before, but the business growth hasn’t slowed down like the panic sellers expected.

  10. First Week of November 16th Options Trading For Red Hat (RHT)

    Investors in Red Hat Inc (NYSE: RHT) saw new options begin trading this week, for the November 16th expiration. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the RHT options chain for the new November 16th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest.

  11. Open software is not free: Red Hat

    Software vendors dispels the myth that open source software has no costs involved

  12. Video: The CentOS Project

    I use CentOS quite a bit myself and I know a lot of other CentOS users. Here is a video of one of the main developers (Karanbir Singh ) within the CentOS Project explaining how the CentOS Project works and builds what it builds.

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