Red Hat to Push Desktop Linux with Intel Partnership
by Dan Burger

Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief executive officer, is a soft-spoken man--more of an actions-speak-louder-than-words kind of guy. In his keynote address at the opening of the Red Hat Summit in San Diego last week, he tip-toed his way through topics that would make most corporate marketing executives cringe. Not that Szulik downplays his company's achievements or passes up opportunities to pin the tail on the Microsoft donkey. He just doesn't shout it out or unfurl it on signs that are four-stories tall. READ MORE >

RHEL 5: How's It Going?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat hosted its eponymous customer and partner summit last week, and among the many announcements that the company made, including raising the curtain a little on its desktop strategy, partnering with IBM for Linux support on mainframes (more on that in next week's issue), and launching the Red Hat Exchange, the company's executives were obviously keen on talking about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which was launched two months ago. READ MORE >

IBM Sees Green in Going Green in Data Centers
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

In New York City last Thursday, when the weather was just starting to get a little muggy but the air conditioning was cranking so high in the Helen Mills Theater that you could just about hang sides of beef on the stage, IBM announced a new initiative, dubbed Project Big Green, under which it will sell technology and services to help the world's data centers consume less power as they support expanding IT workloads. READ MORE >

As I See It: Education--the Other Dysfunction
by Victor Rozek

"For the cost of 15 B-2 bombers, we can give three million teachers real incentives to raise student achievement and stay in the classroom." Now hold on. Before our more hawkish readers get their knickers in a bunch and accuse me of a commie liberal, weak on defense, America hating bias, it wasn't Jane Fonda who made that observation, it was Louis Gerstner. READ MORE >