Red Hat cheerleading purges Q4 profits
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| Red Hat's profit rose 7 per cent during its fiscal fourth quarter, with a
| healthy bump in revenue offset by the open source software distributor's
| increased sales, marketing, and R&D expenses.
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| [...]
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| Red Hat bought a lot of that precious momentum, raising sales and marketing
| expenses to $52.1m during the quarter, compared with $39.7m year-over year.
| Research and development during Q4 was $26.3m, up from $20m.
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| For the full year, total revenue increased 31 per cent to $523m compared with
| fiscal 2007. Subscription revenue rose 32 per cent from the previous year to
| $449.8m.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/27/red_hat_q4_2008_earnings/
Spending slowdown hits Oracle third quarter
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| Oracle's third quarter has proved even a rapacious acquisition strategy can't
| render you immune to a slow down in customer spending.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/27/oracle_fiscal_2008_third_quarter_results/
Oracle tries to evolve by eating someone else's lunch.
With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat
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| In an apparent competitive swipe at Red Hat Inc., Oracle Corp.announced on
| Wednesday, March 26, at InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference that it
| would add Clusterware to its year-old Oracle Unbreakable Linux support
| program for all basic and premium-package customers -- and for free.
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1307296,00.html
Yesterday:
Red Hat "outperform"
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| Analysts at Robert W Baird reiterate their "outperform" rating on Red Hat Inc
| (RHT). The target price is set to $25.
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http://www.newratings.com/en/main/company_headline.m?id=1718444
Related:
RHEL just tripled the size of its ISV ecosystem!
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| Through that series of announcements, Red Hat is lining up its complete RHEL
| strategy and making it clear that it can fit all deployment scenarios -
| traditional or emerging - through the exact same RHEL bits. That proves the
| flexibility of RHEL as a distribution and also factually multiplies the size
| of RHEL’s ecosystem by further enabling all existing RHEL’s ISV on two new
| emerging scenarios, Virtual Appliances and Cloud Computing. While that might
| seem like a trivial statement, it is far from the truth. Just look at VMWare
| for example: while they are getting great traction in the virtualization
| field, it is going to be very difficult for them to enter the two emerging
| fields discussed above, as they have a pretty much empty ISV ecosystem today.
| And you don’t build an ISV ecosystem overnight (you can partner with one or
| acquire one, but not build one overnight).
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http://sacha.labourey.com/2007/11/14/rhel-just-tripled-the-size-of-its-isv-ecosystem/
Red Hat Sees Green
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| The Linux operating system that Red Hat's business is built around is
| free to share and distribute. But while it's easy to become an
| open-source distributor, it's more difficult to become expert
| enough with the stuff to make a living supporting it. Take Red
| Hat rival Novell. The Waltham, Mass.-based software company has
| struggled since moving into the open-source software business
| and positioning itself as an alternative to Red Hat, with its
| shares falling more than 35%, to $7.18 from $11.38, over the
| past three years.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/29/redhat-linux-earnings-markets-equity-cx_bc_0329markets22.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/39h7dj
Customers happy with Red Hat/JBoss connection
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| "I don't think anybody sees the JBoss acquisition as a negative thing,"
| Engate says. "The only ones who might see it as a negative are their
| competitors."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/032807-jboss-red-hat.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Red Hat doubles JBoss funding
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| Open-source specialist Red Hat claims that it is doubling the
| amount of research and development investment in JBoss -- the
| open-source application server company it acquired last June.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Red_Hat_doubles_JBoss_funding/0,130061733,339274288,00.htm?feed=rss
http://tinyurl.com/26wzr3
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