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Red Hat plans to ship the next version of its premium Linux product on February 28, debuting major virtualisation technology but missing an earlier deadline by about two months.
Linux vendor Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation market, to compete against VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, with a US$107 million purchase of Qumranet.
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Check Point may have made big bucks selling firewalls in its early days, but it is struggling to live up to its CEO's vision in today's rapidly shifting security market.
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