Redhat had a great quarter with total quarter revenue increase of 28% year over year. Worth noting is that Redhat's first latin-american deal with a value over 1 million dollars came from a company upgrading from CentOS to RHEL.

But the most significant news might be Matthew Szulic's resignation for personal reasons after more than 9 years at the company. The new CEO Jim Whitehurst comes from Delta Airlines, a totally different economic environment, making some fear for Redhat's future.

As announced earlier, Redhat opened the public beta of their cloud computing solution, powered by Amazon's EC2.

It was a very active day for Redhat, as they also announced the release of Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.1, which integrates virtualisation, with features such as live migration and save/restore of fully virtualised guests..

Redhat announced that its Redhat Enteprise Linux will be available on Amazon's on demand Elastic Cloud Computing platdorm. Price will be 19$ per month, plus 0.21$ per hour per deployed server. General availability is planned before the end of the year.

Version 8 of the Fedora linux distribution is available, and a notable feature is the possibility to completely re-brand the distribution, such that a company or individual could base its own distribution on Fedora, without any visible reference to Fedora itself.

Other notable features is the tickless kernel (following Ubuntu's steps) and much better support for laptops.

JBoss, now part of Redhat, has released Seam 2, the web application development framework. Thsi is a major release with quite a few new things: conversational web services, Groovy support, hot deploy, Eclipse support and more. Gavin King, project lead, answered some questions at Infoq.

Red Hat has signed the contributor agreement needed to collaborate on the OpenJDK development, and has now acccess to the OpenJDK Community Test Compatibility Kit which allows it to implement OpenJDK and test its compatibility with the implementation the project itself develops.

Via News.com and Techworld.com.

Microsoft's Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are "designed to improve the usability and interoperability of running qualified Linux operating systems as guests or virtual machines of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1". It improves guest and host synchronisation ( time synchronisation, heartbeat generation, and coordinated shutdown), mouse and display drivers, as well as the SCSI hard drive emulation. Several versions of Suse but also RedHat distributions are supported, in standard and enterprise versions.

Source: VMBlog

RedHat Developer Studio is a set of eclipse-based development tools that are pre-configured for JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux., available for both GNU/Linux and Windows systems.

Oracle announced that it has ported Yast, the setup tool originally found in SuSe's distribution, to its own linux distribution based on and compatible RedHat Enterprise Linux.