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Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud. This collaboration makes all the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including the Red Hat Network management service, world-class technical support and over 3,400 certified applications, available to customers on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing customers to pay only for the infrastructure software services and capacity that they actually use. Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 enables customers to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, removing the need to over-buy software and hardware capacity as a set of resources to handle ... (more)

Red Hat's Hogan Comments on UserLinux

The following three replies are taken from a longer Q & A just published at www.LinuxQuestions.org. Hogan, Manager of Community Relations at Red Hat, does not seem unduly concerned about UserLinux.   Q. What are your thoughts on UserLinux? Hogan: It's a great boost for Debian efforts (meaning the part of the announcement regarding funding). I'm not sure what some of the statements about "proprietary open source" were about, but you say what makes the trades, I guess. I'm still not sure if it's an effort to get funding being Debian-based distros, or a reaction to things Red Hat i... (more)

Red Hat to Compete Against SourceLabs and SpikeSource

Red Hat will compete with Spikesource and SourceLabs, who are in the business of validating, integrating, productizing, certifying and supporting LAMP stacks, by early 2006 with   three certified open source software stacks through the Red Hat Network that are production-supported. Each stack will be certified and supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and delivered in a subscription model. Pricing will start at $599 per server. The company said the stacks would simplify and standardize open source application stacks and developers could focus on their applications instead of config... (more)

Red Hat Delivers Second-Generation SOA Foundation with JBoss ESB 4.2

Red Hat, in conjunction with the open source community, released JBoss ESB 4.2, a JBoss.org open source project. JBoss ESB 4.2 intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and enable the automation of business processes. JBoss ESB 4.2 supports various messaging products for transport, component models as SOA end points, data integration from Hibernate and MetaMatrix federated data sources, and data transformation for seamless communication. JBoss ESB 4.2 provides a registry for service discovery a... (more)

EsSalud Centralizes IT Systems with Red Hat Solutions

Red Hat announced that EsSalud has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to stabilize its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project. EsSalud turned to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on HP hardware to reliably and cost-effectively centralize the information of its national assistance centers, the company said. Luis Chirinos, systems developer manager for EsSalud, said: "The virtualization capabilities in Red Hat enterprise Linux 5 were a decisive factor in our company's resolve to adopt this platform. In addition, we looked to Red ... (more)