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“Red Hat customers will benefit from a highly optimized, accelerated runtime for JBoss Enterprise Middleware in a Linux environment”

Nearly a year after Sun Microsystems first announced it would be releasing a build of Java to the open source community , Red Hat has apparently signed on. via BetaNews

“In combination with the optimizing compilers and tools in Sun Studio software, this library allows developers to create high performance applications on AMD Opteron processor-based systems, running the Solaris operating system.”

AMD today announced significant updates to its AMD Core Math Library designed to provide software developers with highly optimized, multi-threaded math routines used by scientific, engineering, business and ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

While that may be true in some cases, saying so doesn't help managers deal with techies any better: It just defers the problem. via Linux Today

“Apple's Time Machine is a great feature in their OS, adding that Linux has "almost all of the required technology”

An interesting aspect of the project is the fact that an Apple technology is being looked on with admiration from at least some quarters of the open source community. via LinuxInsider

The two groups claim to have signed up 30 new customers , but it will still be some time before any real changes will be felt. via Slashdot

“At the same time, open-source Java can help Red Hat in terms of providing an enterprise stack that is rich, robust, and addresses as many needs in the marketplace as possible.”

When Sun open-sourced Java, it opened up some new doors, and Red Hat is stepping through one of them, said Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. via CIO Today

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About: xlike is a patch collection for the Linux vanilla kernel. It includes as many stable enhancements for the Linux kernel as possible. via Freshmeat

“Some of our community was just tired of people saying you couldn't run cool games on Linux”

Xeon Processors Packed with Latest Server Technologies By adding more servers, the datacenter can quickly grow out of control, and bring power and cooling costs with it. via InternetNews

“There are pieces of the armor that are pretty rapidly deteriorating”

November 09, 2007 -- Microsoft Corp. on Friday introduced a new pilot program to encourage refurbishers to install legitimate copies of Windows XP on used PCs. via ComputerWorld

Red Hat has released the new Linux 5.1 with integrated virtualization, a new platform for customers and software developers that offers a broad deployment ecosystem, covering standalone and virtualized systems, ... via Inc. Magazine

Watching VMware stock and its market cap spike since it IPO'd must have had Red Hat positively pea green with envy - so green in fact that it's gonna try taking VMware on by pushing the Xen virtualization ... via WEBSPHERE Journal

In a move that's somewhat divergent from the direction they've been headed, Red Hat recently announced that RHEL will soon be available on the Amazon EC2 platform. via Jeremy's Blog

“We are sticking with that platform”

Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all. via PC World

“Until now, the industry has been afraid to speak out publicly about the amount of power that U.S. mobile carriers wield and the limited personal control and choice given to the consumer”

Several big name telecom providers and a raft of software developers announced support for the Google-led Open Handset Alliance announced on Monday. via SmartPhoneToday

“He offers 10 minutes of reasons why Nina is dead”

The prosecutor in the Hans Reiser murder trial wrapped up more than two days of opening arguments Thursday by telling jurors a mound of evidence shows the well-known Linux developer killed his wife. via The Register

Despite its striking popularity, Ubuntu Linux isn't the only big Linux distribution around. via The Tech Report

“Plus, it's a very different -- and more complicated -- sale.”

Sun has hooked Red Hat on two agreements, one that relates to Red Hat engineers participating in Sun-led projects, and one that lets the Linux developer dig deeper test for Java SE 6 compliance. via LinuxInsider

Red Hat has added its Enterprise Linux OS to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud service that hosts business applications. via Techworld