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ed Hat strategy spans virtualized, cloud and appliance deployments

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| Red Hat Executive Vice President of Engineering Paul Cormier on Nov. 7
| predicted that Red Hat new Linux Automation strategy, which allows Red
| Hat-certified applications to run anywhere, at any time, will help the
| company to more than double its current server market share. In addition, he
| said, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will have ver 50 percent of server market
| share by 2015. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9306197843.html

Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute
Cloud

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| My take on these announcements is that Red Hat wants to take its Linux
| distribution clout far beyond the market for dedicated servers and blades at
| individual enterprises, and become the de facto industry standard for how
| hosting organizations, telecommunications providers, entertainment providers,
| and on-demand ISVs deploy all their applications over the next 10 years.
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http://smokie.outblogger.com/note/8331/red-hat-partners-with-amazon-for.html

This isn't the first time they they outline plans to conquer and grab Windows'
lunch (not just UNIX). That's why Microsoft signed an anti-Red Hat deal with
Novell.

Big chunk of new press releases...

Red Hat Announces Red Hat Enterprise Linux Available On Demand on Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud

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| 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.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071107/20071107005892.html?.v=1

Red Hat Announces Appliance Platform to Improve Economics and Expand Market for
Software Vendors

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| The Red Hat Appliance Operating System will allow applications that are
| certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to be deployed as software appliances
| on the broadest range of servers in the industry, including those running Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX and Microsoft Windows Viridian.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071107/20071107005891.html?.v=1

Red Hat Enables Virtualization for Millions of Servers

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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 virtualization delivers considerably broader
| server support than proprietary virtualization products, and up to twice the
| performance.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071107/20071107005894.html?.v=1

Red Hat Infrastructure Strategy Spans Virtualized, Cloud and Appliance
Deployments

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| Red Hat's Linux Automation strategy covers all facets of the IT environment
| necessary to enable any application to be run anywhere, at any time.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071107/20071107005924.html?.v=1

Seems like some fluff... less about new products. Desktop Red Hat (RHEL) is
coming soon...


Related:

Red Hat and Sun Collaborate to Advance Open Source Java Technology

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| Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today
| announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems to advance open source Java
| software. Red Hat has signed Sun's broad contributor agreement that covers
| participation in all Sun-led open source projects by all Red Hat engineers.