In the wake of Oracle's bid for Virtual Iron, we asked industry watchers to speculate on how deep-pocketed tech firms might respond. See who could be in the acquisition crosshairs for IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and others
Open-Xchange, formerly Netline Internet Service, has released its well regarded open-source collaboration server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), as part of the company's program of broadening its cross-platform support. Open-Xchange is the main commercial, open-source alternative to proprietary systems such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise.
Looking to encourage community participation in its two-year-old Fedora Core Linux project, Red Hat Inc. this month announced plans to move development and copyright control of Fedora
Red Hat is warning enterprise Linux users to update their installations of XFree86 to fix a number of serious security bugs, some of which could allow attackers to take over a system. Affected operating systems include Enterprise Linux AS 3, Enterprise Linux ES 3 and Enterprise Linux WS 3, Red Hat said in an advisory.
Oracle Corp. and Red Hat Inc. are opening a Linux Enterprise Applications Porting Center in Singapore as a regional hub to help ISVs (independent software vendors) and system integrators in Asia Pacific.