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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

IDC’s Al Gillen Covers the Red Hat / Microsoft Virtualization Announcement

I just saw Al Gillen covered the news from Red Hat and Microsoft on virtualization. Note the differences between this announcement and the Novell-Microsoft announcement. Two approaches that both achieve the same general customer result – which approach is better is up to you to decide/discuss ;-)

What’s also interesting is that so far, Red Hat has only submitted for Windows certification on KVM and not yest on RHEL/Xen (which is currently shipping).

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=lcUS21686409

The Red Hat and Microsoft agreement simply is about cross-validation/certification and does not have any IP or financial implications.

 

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Red Hat and IBM: It’s been 10 years

With the continuing growth and scale of Linux, you would think it was still early in its lifecycle, but today’s blog post by Alex Pinchev at Red Hat reminded me it’s been 10 years since IBM and Red Hat first partnered. 10 years – so much has changed in that time. I was only around for less than half that time working on the IBM side, but it was always an exciting and dynamic area to work in. I think we’ll see many more years of success ahead.

You can read their post here.

Today we are celebrating a momentous occasion. Ten years ago today, Red Hat and IBM began our global collaborative partnership to expand the use of enterprise solutions on Linux. It was a small but important start to announce that IBM would run Red Hat Linux on its industry-standard systems. Back in 1999, Red Hat was on the eve of its IPO, and IBM was testing the waters of Linux. Only 10 million users ran the Linux operating system at the time, according to IDC Research quoted in our original partnership announcement.

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Windows 7: You can finally see what’s booting

First, Windows 7 is over-hyped already just like Vista was. Unfortunately for those who buy into the hype, a reality that Windows 7 is nothing more than a minor update will set in real fast. It’s a good update nonetheless, and the more I’m using it the more I’m seeing “this is better than Vista” attributes. It’s a more “polished” version to steal a phrase commonly reserved for Ubuntu vs other desktop distros.

Regardless, I found a new, interesting feature playing around with the Windows 7 beta. First, fire up the msconfig app

 

Now in the Boot tab, you will see options for “No GUI boot” and “OS boot information”. If you check both of these options, you can see Windows starting up similar to what you’d expect in a classic Linux boot. Now I’ll warn you – this can take a long time. I’m not sure why, but it took forever when I did this. I would think it’s no different from a booting perspective, but it’s not…

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Bob Sutor takes on a new (Linux-related) role in IBM

Congratulations to Bob Sutor on his new role in IBM’s Linux team:

Now that it’s been announced internally, I can briefly spill the beans that I have a new and expanded role in IBM. My standards and open source IP/membership/policy team and I are moving to the Software Group, and I am picking up…