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  • 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 appoints new CTO

    Red Hat has reshuffled its board and appointed Brian Stevens as its new chief technology officer and vice president of engineering.

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    The company's next Fedora Linux will include the new approach to carving Linux systems into multiple virtual machines.

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

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    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.

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

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