Posts Tagged ‘Open source’

Red Hat launches open source Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Red Hat’s new Enterprise Operating System is now generally available, and offers a single platform for enterprises to converge their computing across the open hybrid cloud, from bare metal and virtual machines to the cloud.

Red Hat's latest release of its flagship platform - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 promises dramatic improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability.

Red Hat’s latest release of its flagship platform – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 promises dramatic improvements in reliability, performance, and scalability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the latest major release of the company’s flagship platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 not only lays the foundation for the open hybrid cloud and serves enterprise workloads across converged infrastructures, but it also pushes the operating system beyond today’s position as a commodity platform.

Built to meet modern datacenter demands along with next-generation IT requirements, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 powers the spectrum of enterprise IT, from application containers to cloud services.

Bare metal servers, virtual machines, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are converging to form a robust, powerful datacenter environment to meet constantly changing business needs.

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Red Hat signs MOU with A*STAR BATC on Data Analytics Development

Tuesday, October 1st, 2013

A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) collaborates with Red Hat to Use open source solutions for data analytic applications development.

Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.

Witnesses and signing parties of the MOU collaboration between Red Hat and A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre. From L-R: Ang Wee Tiong, Director, Technology, BATC; Dr. Tan Geok Leng, Executive Director, Science & Engineering Research Council, A*STAR & Chairman, BATC Management Committee; Damien Wong, General Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat; Suresh Sachi, Deputy Managing Director (Corporate & Legal), General Counsel, A*STAR; Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat; Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources; Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, IDA; Shankha Sen, Chief Financial Officer, Red Hat Asia Pacific.

Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced plans for a new collaboration with A*STAR’s Business Analytics Translational Centre (BATC) to help accelerate innovation and drive adoption of business analytics with open source solutions from Red Hat.

“Open source has evolved to become a foundation for innovation. As technology continues to become more of a commodity, the standardization of parts can help spur more rapid innovation,” said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat.

Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, was present for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today in Singapore with Dr Tan Geok Leng, Chairman of BATC Management Committee and Executive Director for the Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC), A*STAR.

Red Hat will be collaborating with BATC in areas of big data, middleware, Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), cloud and storage, for the innovation and development of current and upcoming analytics projects.

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Infographic: Red Hat started from a spare bedroom

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

Did you know Red Hat started out in a spare bedroom in Tim Burke’s (current Vice President, Linux Engineering, Red Hat) house?

Here’s a tech byte about the software company that provides open source software to the enterprise community.

Red Hat started out from a spare bedroom. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source software.

Red Hat started out from a spare bedroom. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source software.

Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, with an October release called Halloween. It also started the Fedora Project in 2003.

Red Hat believes in community-led innovation. That’s why Red Hat is the leading corporate contributor to the kernel, with 70,790 changes, making up 16.3% of contributions to the GNOME project.

The Top 5 Asia Pacific stock exchanges are powered by Red Hat.

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Infographic: Linux turns 21

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

Do you know that Linux has turned 21 years old on 25 August 2012? Here’s a tech byte about the open source operating system.

Linux is now twenty-one years old. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source.

Linux is now twenty-one years old. Click to see full infographic which includes Red Hat and Open Source.

The initial announcement from Linus Torvalds was posted on 25 August 1991.

The kernel which forms the core of the Linux system is the result of one of the largest co-operative software projects ever attempted.

Almost 8,000 individual developers contributed to each kernel release between ver. 2.6.11 to 3.2, and the numbers continue to increase.

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Launch of LibreOffice 3.3 – successor to OpenOffice

Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Wondering what happened to OpenOffice after Oracle took over the Sun? It’s now called LibreOffice but preserves the free open-source promise and vendor-independent principle that its predecessor maintained.

Almost a full year after Oracle Corporation announced that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems on 27 Jan 2010, LibreOffice 3.3 has been released by a breakaway group of developers previously from the OpenOffice.org Project, which had been sponsored by Sun.

LibreOffice 3.3 from The Document FoundationLibreOffice 3.3 is an office productivity suite that includes software for wordprocessing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress), databases (Base), equation editing (Maths) and drawing (Draw). It is available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The developers in the breakaway group comprised about a third of the original OpenOffice.org team and formed The Document Foundation in September 2010.

OpenOffice 3.3 from OracleThey were concerned that Oracle would discontinue OpenOffice as they did OpenSolaris since these open-source projects did not contribute a significant part to the bottom line.

In the space of four months, they have created a stable release of the office suite, which was unveiled on 25 Mar 2011. Based on a fork of the OpenOffice code, much of the development focus was on adding new features as well as extensively cleaning up portions of the legacy code, said Italo Vignoli, a founding member of The Document Foundation.

The version 3.3 continues from the versioning under OpenOffice. LibreOffice means “Free Office” and is free for users to download, modify, use and distribute. The name was original intended to be temporary, in the hope that Oracle would accept their invitation to become a member of The Document Foundation and donate the OpenOffice.org brand to the project.

Oracle has rejected the project.

Canonical, Novell and Red Hat intend to include LibreOffice in upcoming versions of their operating systems. The office suite for the Ubuntu 11.04 daily builds was changed to LibreOffice for alpha testing purposes on 20 January 2011.

LibreOffice 3.3 features improved usability and interoperability with other formats, such as improved support for importing documents from Lotus Word Pro and Microsoft Works. It can now import SVG content and edit SVG images in LibreOffice Draw.

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