Red Hat Breaks $500 Million in 2007, Aims 30 Percent Higher in 2008
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat closed out its fiscal 2007 year and last week reported financial results for the final quarter and full year. With the absorption of JBoss more or less accomplished and Red Hat the leader in commercial Linux shipments support sales, the company is pressing on to break through the $1 billion barrier in the next few years under the guidance of a new president and chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst. READ MORE >

HP Targets SMB Shops with New Entry Servers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

With Dell waking back up in the server market, particularly in the entry X64 space where it still has some clout, building out a distribution channel, and making some moves in the blade server area now, too, Hewlett-Packard has to stay on its toes and continue rolling out new technology to keep enticing small and medium businesses to choose its ProLiant products over Dell's PowerEdge alternatives in tower, rack, and blade form factors. READ MORE >

IBM and VCs Invest in EnterpriseDB
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

EnterpriseDB, the commercial enterprise that is providing support and services for the open source PostgreSQL relational database management system, announced this week that it has received its third round of venture capital funding, including some dough from IBM. READ MORE >

As I See It: Misera Plebs Contribuens
by Victor Rozek

Greetings, misera plebs contribuens! It's what the Hungarian people started calling themselves after King Andreas II exempted the nobility from taxation--an immunity which, like one, long, baronial happy meal, lasted from the 13th to the 19th century. It means 'miserable tax-paying people,' and if you've already prepared this year's return, you probably feel like one. READ MORE >