Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'redhat'

"Holding the product version and support level constant across an on-premise license and Amazon EC2 instance, the price premium of Windows vs. RHEL, if X% for on-premise, will be less than X% on the Amazon cloud. Said differently, the license cost differential between proprietary and open source products narrows in the cloud."

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january 2010 by sogrady

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Red Hat tells Supremes: software patents stifle innovation - Business Exchange

couldn't agree more. i can't say it enough: there is no realistic process for processing and granting software patents, so allowing the current system to persist is borderline criminal.

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october 2009 by sogrady

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Deltacloud | Many Clouds. One API. No Problem.

more on this one soon. lots of moving pieces in this space at the moment, but an interesting project

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september 2009 by sogrady

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Red Hat's new CEO aims Linux at the cloud | Business Tech - CNET News.com

interesting interview with Whitehurst on a number of levels

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Red Hat Prepping Managed Services Strategy | MSPmentor

this is interesting

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april 2008 by sogrady

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451 CAOS Theory » Red Hat branding police outlaws RHEL

hilarious. i never hear it referred to as anything but.

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Main Page - RedHatET

as was said in #redmonk today, some interesting bits in here

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Havoc's Blog January, 2008

b/twn Blizzard and Havoc, these are losses for RHAT. not meaning to be melodramatic about it, but both are well thought of. have developed a lot of respect for Havoc. i wonder if his new opportunity has anything to do w/ the Online Desktop.

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Q&A: Red Hat CEO believes Delta past isn't a liability | Underexposed - CNET News.com

"One is focus, focus, focus. This is a company that is almost encumbered by the opportunities we have." - i wonder what that means for OLPC, Online Desktop/Mugshot, desktop efforts generally, etc

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january 2008 by sogrady

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always find myself agreeing with an interview i saw with Cisco's CEO Chambers: culture can be among the most important considerations when it comes to M&A.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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TechIQ » Archive » 10 Open Source Companies Set to Dominate 2008

you can always argue with lists like these, but this is definitely worth a read. worth noting that three of the mentioned projects - MySQL, Ubuntu, and WordPress, underpin our business. and that the latter two are clients of ours.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Rise or fall for Red Hat? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

Savio's right: the comments on this one are interesting, as it's Matt's read on the state of RHAT.

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december 2007 by sogrady

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max spevack's blog - drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader

interesting Fedora community traction numbers

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december 2007 by sogrady

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Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online | Underexposed - CNET News.com

this is big news, for several reasons (yes, a Q&A is in the works)

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Mark J. Wielaard » Friends

mjw on the Red Hat / Java news

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat and Sun Collaborate to Advance Open Source Java Technology

interesting news. FYI, this bit - "Red Hat will have full access to the OpenJDK code base" - is intended to mean that RHAT has the ability to contribute back (not commit rights, yet). the code is still open for all comers.

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november 2007 by sogrady

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"Red Hat beyond its roots as the #1 Linux vendor to a more general 'open source service and solutions company.' " - someone is going to get there. the questions now is who, and when?

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » and now everything will be different

interesting. Blizzard is over to Mozilla.

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Law & Life: Silicon Valley: Patent Troll Fire First Volley at Open Source

Mark Radcliffe with a brief take on the Acacia patent litigation

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringment | The Register

here we go...

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat - vnunet.com

"People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us" - here we go again

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october 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat flags OSI offenders on partner site | The Register

wow - bold move by Red Hat

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat Magazine | Remixing Fedora 7

this is very cool stuff

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Mark J. Wielaard » IcedTea

"I have to admit I hadn’t expected a fully free boostrappable OpenJDK already, but there it is!" - mjw's right - congrats to the IcedTea folks, this is impressive

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june 2007 by sogrady

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mjg59: This thread on the Sun initiative to pro

fascinating, not just for the comments on Sun's Project Indiana initiative, but also for the comments discussing the relative merits of the approaches taken by Red Hat, Ubuntu and so on

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Welcome to Revisor — Revisor

bunch of folks have asked me about this, and yes, i think it's very interesting. need to spin up a Fedora instance soon, methinks. anyone know who i should talk to about this?

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Zimbra + RHX = Innovative & Yet Simple Messaging!

Zimbra's a fan of the Exchange, it would seem

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » summary from the red hat summit

lots of interesting news from the Red Hat Summit, it would appear

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Why device developers prefer Debian

"LinuxDevices.com's survey results consistently show Debian to be the most popular distribution among device developers." - very interesting

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may 2007 by sogrady

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The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - results

this is bad news for Sun; some surprising (and not) Apache solidarity here

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | High Noon in the (Open Source) Garden of Good and Evil | April 13, 2007 01:18 PM | By Matt Asay

Matt's response to Mike's response to Matt's response to Mike's post: got all that? ;) seriously, thought, there's some interesting thinking here about open source businesses and the models that support them

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Mike Olson Blog : Mike Olson Blog

Mike, always down to earth and matter of fact, lays out his view of the Oracle Linux endeavor: i don't quite see eye to eye with him here, but this is an excellent summary

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Big Board - Mugshot Developer Wiki

marked as: to build

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Oracle's Linux Claims Are a Head Scratcher

some pushback to Oracle's Linux claims

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Interoperability Happens - RedHat, Inc: The Next Microsoft?

not the first time these types of trademark issues have come up, and certainly won't be the last

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Michael Dolan Dot Com » Recommended Reading for “Enterprisey” Types (and some for SystemTAP types)

as i mentioned to Michael in #redmonk the other day, SystemTAP's aggressiveness (in guru mode) does concern me, but i understand the pushback

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march 2007 by sogrady

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MatthewBarnes - GNOME Live!

"I joined Red Hat after an eight-year stint at Boeing in Saint Louis, Missouri where I worked on several military projects including the X-32 Joint Strike Fighter." - you mean everyone doesn't have this background?

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march 2007 by sogrady

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John Liang - systemtap crashed the kernel

ugly SystemTap error; this should not be permitted to happen

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Red Hat Launches Open-Source Exchange

more on this tomorrow; short version is that i think it's an excellent move - long overdue, in fact

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march 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Red Hat to open source its Network product | January 29, 2007 12:38 PM | By Matt Asay

"Red Hat is going to be open sourcing both the Red Hat Network Satellite Server and the JBoss Operations Network Server." - this isn't the network offering i've been envisioning, but it's definitely part of the solution

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | FSG and OSDL merge | January 22, 2007 11:34 AM | By Matt Asay

It is still, however, an open question as to how much value any organization can bring to the market, given that the market is already voting for a vendor-sponsored standard, otherwise known as "Red Hat." - would debate this notion as well

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux | January 22, 2007 03:56 PM | By Matt Asay

even given Matt's obvious affection for Red hat, i think this is overstating the case; i don't think the issue here is closed binaries, nor do i think that's the sole reason ISVs write to SuSE & Red Hat

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog » Red Hat’s mindshare, and my summer internship

"So I think the original comment that James quoted is originally correct." - must respectfully disagree with Luis here; i think the quote would be correct if it was intended in a commercial context - if not, i think Debian+ has *far* more mindshare

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Open Source Weblog: Where does open source code come from?

i'll have comments on this shortly, but in the meantime some interesting conclusions from the EU FLOSS report (worst acronym) - as Matt noted, some definite surprise names on the list

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Mike Mason - Re: Script to measure resource usage based on process arguments

an interesting - and potentially worrisome - SystemTap issue

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Zarro Boogs found. » Firefox and Linux

an excellent stab at a thorny problem; seems like it would have been more authoritative with some Debian/Ubuntu representation - still, progress is progress

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december 2006 by sogrady

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Red Hat Ownership "Not the Huge Positive I was Hoping For," Says JBoss's Fleury @ ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE

"the R&D really hasn't benefited from a huge investment" - Fleury, grumbling a bit about Red Hat's post-acquisition handling of JBoss

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Microsoft May Indemnify Some Red Hat Linux Users

indemnify them from what, precisely?

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Log for November, 2006

Havoc's not happy w/ the Microsoft/Novell deal

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog » more thoughts on MS and Novell (with a dash of Oracle, Sun, and Ubuntu)

Luis is speaking for a lot of people here; great points, and i'll hopefully have some follow up as well soon

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november 2006 by sogrady

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wtogami: Unfakeable T-Shirt

no surprises, but good looking wo...err, t-shirt ;)

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : Weblog

"Do Operating Systems Matter?" - a question i've been pondering quite a bit of late; my answer is yes - more on why later (yes it ties back to the virtualization questions)

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Red Hat won't cut prices because of Oracle: CEO - Yahoo! News

Matt thinks this is a good idea - i'm not so sure; i don't think they should immediately cut prices, but being explicit about the fact that they won't leaves them in a bind perception-wise in the event that it should it become necessary

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Virtual Machine Manager: Screenshots

i will undoubtedly be giving this a whirl as soon as i rustle myself up a machine with Xen on it

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october 2006 by sogrady

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Mugshot

help! i need an invite ;)

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june 2006 by sogrady

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FAQ

interesting; Havoc and the RH folks put together a page for analysts and media like us - interesting - cool project too

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Kudos to the Shadowman

shuttleworth thanking Red Hat, interesting and thoughtful commentary; one wondersShuttleworth is turning out to be the Diplomat of the Linux community - note the inclusion of OpenSolaris

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Michael Dolan Dot Com: Linux, Law, Open Source » Very interesting… Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu Google trend…

isn't it?

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial?

i've already posted on this, so it shouldn't be any surprise to learn that i believe they can

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Ian Skerrett: Linux Distros Working Group

this is pretty interesting; i need to follow up with these folks to see what approach they'll be taking, as it could have wider significance

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may 2006 by sogrady

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AC/OS: Open Solaris at Linux's expense?

Asay's skeptical of some positive press for Solaris; there's some truth to what he says, but i think he undersells Solaris fairly significantly - it's not one or the other, there's room for both

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may 2006 by sogrady

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linux-venture-capital-fig3.gif (GIF Image, 468x368 pixels)

great diagram detailing the web of VC investments in various open source players

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april 2006 by sogrady

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Yahoo! 360° - Mark de Visser's Blog

"I think the answer is mostly inertia, but that over time commoditization will drive the revenues out of the Linux layer of the stack." - sounds like Debian/Ubuntu to me