Red Hat has announced plans to buy Linux company, Cygnus Solutions, for $674m. The move will see Red Hat merge with Cygnus to create the largest open-source company in the world. The company will be headed by Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's president.
Sun Microsystems is to offer Red Hat's Linux 6.1 through its online store for use on Sun UltraSPARC workstations and Sun Enterprise servers. The company will also provide full support, through Red Hat, for any customers opting to run Linux instead...
Red Hat has been hit by a patent lawsuit related to JBoss, just weeks after completing its purchase of the open source software company. In a jury trial, FireStar is seeking treble damages (three times the amount awarded by the jury) and a halt to...
Oracle is to sell support to Red Hat Linux customers and offer its own free clone of the open source OS, posing a major competitive challenge to the leading Linux seller. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison told thousands of attendees at the...
Red Hat has launched its Red Hat Exchange, a site where customers can buy a range of open source applications from the company's business partners. The Red Hat Exchange offers a much wider range of software than Red Hat's two core products...
Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably.