IBM adds Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and is bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB into its hybrid cloud service. IBM continued its Red Hat and open-source integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB along side its hybrid-cloud services offering. … Read more
IBM has completed its acquisition of Linux giant Red Hat in a move the companies say will allow them to tackle larger projects for customers and create more partnerships with other vendors. IBM has finalized its $34 billion purchase of Red Hat and says it will use the Linux powerhouse’s open-source know-how to enable larger … Read more
Red Hat issued a security advisory on recently disclosed CVEs (common vulnerabilities and exposures) in Intel microprocessors. Four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed related to Intel microprocessors. These vulnerabilities allow unprivileged attackers to bypass restrictions to gain read access to privileged memory. They include these common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs): CVE-2018-12126 – a flaw that could lead to information … Read more
You have four paid options—from Azul, IBM, Oracle, and Red Hat—to get support for the most used version of JDK. Time is running short for free updates for commercial users running Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK) 8, the most in-use version of Java and the foundation for many Java applications. The free JDK 8 updates … Read more
Red Hat’s new vice president and general manager of its RHEL Business Unit, Stefanie Chiras, enthusiastically embraces the growing importance of Linux. While you may not spend a lot of time thinking about this, the role Linux plays in the technology that we all use everyday is growing quite significantly. In an effort to more … Read more
IBM hopes the acquisition of Red Hat will give its customers the tools to expand their use of cloud by creating and deploying cloud-friendly applications on a larger scale, a goal shared by IBM competitors Google, Amazon and Microsoft. IBM has made a bold move to blast its way into the enterprise multicloud world by … Read more
IBM just spent $34 billion to buy a software company that gives away its primary product for free. IBM Sunday said it would acquire Red Hat, best known for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Red Hat is an open source software company that gives away the source code for its core products. That means … Read more
Red Hat initiated open-source projects which use GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1, will be expected to add GPLv3’s cure commitment language to their licenses. From outside programming circles, software licensing may not seem important. In open-source, though, licensing is all important. So, when leading Linux company Red Hat announces that — from here on out — all new Red … Read more
With the roll-out of GNU GPL 3.0 open source licensing, the industry is expecting discrepancies, and hopes an open discussion will help to debug it. Ten companies have made a public commitment to providing greater predictability to open source users under the new GPL (General Public Licence) v3.0 licensing. CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, SAP and SUSE … Read more
