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  • Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

    Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range.

  • Red Hat targets server messaging market

    Red Hat has plans for a new private beta test of open source messaging software to begin next month, with hopes to reinvent a section of the server market currently ruled by proprietary vendors.

  • Red Hat releases Xen-enabled Linux beta

    Red Hat on Friday released a test version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, its first product to incorporate the Xen virtualisation technology.

  • Novell tools can write Red Hat, CenOS apps

    Novell has extended a set of development tools so they can be used to write applications and other software for rival Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.

  • Oracle yet to tip Red Hat

    Oracle is yet to provide evidence Australian customers are switching to its Red Hat Linux support program despite announcing new business deals for the last quarter.

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  • KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

    A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.

  • Red Hat to offer high-end Linux version

    Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, will begin offering a higher-end and more specialised version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.

  • Red Hat looks under Linux's hood

    Trying to take a more active role in open-source programming, Red Hat has created a team of 34 programmers to work on nothing but next-generation software.

  • Sun poised to take open-source Solaris step

    Sun Microsystems is about to take the next step in its plan to refurbish the reputation of its Solaris operating system in the eyes of a small but crucial group: programmers.

  • Itanium gives OpenVMS new lease on life

    Hewlett-Packard says it will offer the popular OpenVMS operating system on its new Itanium-based servers.

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