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"Abdulkarim Al-saleh" <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:52:08 +0300
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--===============1678255124== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5611_33332405.1161719528378" ------=_Part_5611_33332405.1161719528378 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Red Hat vows better instructions for beta OS *By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, * The beta release of Red Hat<http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/redhat.html>Enterprise Linux 5 has some "warts," a Red Hat executive said Thursday, adding that the company will improve its documentation for the second beta release, particularly concerning virtualization. *Related links* Red Hat's beta testers had a far more positive reaction than what appeared in press reports, said Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and general manager of enterprise solutions. But Yeaton predicted a stronger Beta 2, scheduled for release "within weeks," that will include a beta user's guide, he said. "This is complicated technology, particularly when you take it to production," Yeaton said. "Customers need it to perform. We needed to make sure the documentation is at a state where people can actually use the system." Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 includes Xen virtualization technology, which allows multiple copies of an operating system to run on a piece of hardware, potentially reducing the energy costs and machines required for a given task. Competitor Novell put Xen in its Suse Linux 10 Server release in July. Enterprise Linux 5 is scheduled for a general release early next year, Yeaton said, and the company does not plan a third beta release. In other developments, Yeaton said Red Hat has joined the European Community Open Platform for User-Centric Service Creation and Execution (OPUCE), a consortium designing future service delivery platforms for the telecommunications industry. The company will push its Enterprise Linux as an operating system for carriers, and also promote the JBoss Middleware Suite, part of its $350 million acquisition of JBoss<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041006-red-hat-buy-jboss.html>in April. Red Hat sees the telecommunications industry "catching fire" in the near future, as carriers upgrade their systems for features such as IP telephony, Yeaton said. Red Hat now has a dedicated team to understand the industry's needs, he said. "What we're now seeing with these next generation service delivery platforms (SDP) is a desire to start to retool that underlying platform using more open source operating system technology and middleware," Yeaton said. -- Abdul Karim Saleh Time For Linux ------=_Part_5611_33332405.1161719528378 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br clear="all"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 1pt 0in 3pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 20.5pt; COLOR: #830707; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt">Red Hat vows better instructions for beta OS </span></p> <p class="byline1" style="MARGIN: 12pt 0in 9.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black"><em><font face="Verdana">By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service, </font></em></span></p> <p class="first1" style="MARGIN: 23pt 0in 9.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black"><font face="Verdana" size="4">The beta release of </font><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/redhat.html"><font face="Verdana" color="#0863a5" size="4"> Red Hat</font></a><font size="4"><font face="Verdana"> Enterprise Linux 5 has some "warts," a Red Hat executive said Thursday, adding that the company will improve its documentation for the second beta release, particularly concerning virtualization. </font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND: #f0f5fa; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font size="4"></font></span></p> <p class="channelstextsmall1" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; BACKGROUND: #f0f5fa; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Related links</span> </strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Red Hat's beta testers had a far more positive reaction than what appeared in press reports, said Tim Yeaton, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and general manager of enterprise solutions. But Yeaton predicted a stronger Beta 2, scheduled for release "within weeks," that will include a beta user's guide, he said. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"This is complicated technology, particularly when you take it to production," Yeaton said. "Customers need it to perform. We needed to make sure the documentation is at a state where people can actually use the system." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 includes Xen virtualization technology, which allows multiple copies of an operating system to run on a piece of hardware, potentially reducing the energy costs and machines required for a given task. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Competitor Novell put Xen in its Suse Linux 10 Server release in July. Enterprise Linux 5 is scheduled for a general release early next year, Yeaton said, and the company does not plan a third beta release. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">In other developments, Yeaton said Red Hat has joined the European Community Open Platform for User-Centric Service Creation and Execution (OPUCE), a consortium designing future service delivery platforms for the telecommunications industry. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The company will push its Enterprise Linux as an operating system for carriers, and also promote the JBoss Middleware Suite, part of its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/041006-red-hat-buy-jboss.html"><font color="#0863a5">$350 million acquisition of JBoss</font></a> in April. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Red Hat sees the telecommunications industry "catching fire" in the near future, as carriers upgrade their systems for features such as IP telephony, Yeaton said. Red Hat now has a dedicated team to understand the industry's needs, he said. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 9.6pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.6pt"><span style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">"What we're now seeing with these next generation service delivery platforms (SDP) is a desire to start to retool that underlying platform using more open source operating system technology and middleware," Yeaton said. </span></p><br>-- <br>Abdul Karim Saleh<br>Time For Linux ------=_Part_5611_33332405.1161719528378-- --===============1678255124== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ JedLUG-general mailing list [email protected] http://kerneled.org/mailman/listinfo/jedlug-general_kerneled.org --===============1678255124==--