Not because Red Hat software is pure awesomeness, but simply because you end up doing all the awful gut-wrenching work of interoperability checking and bug-fixing and pretty soon it's like you've ...

Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software ...

Red Hat has embraced OpenStack, a new kind of open-source software. But some Red Hat rivals, partners and customers fear that it is wielding its dominance in Linux to block organizations from ...

Red Hat created its own product, called Sigtore, that can be used to authenticate the source when building software.

Unless you’re making changes to open source software, license compliance is not a user issue. As its CEO Jim Whitehurst hints, Red Hat’s success has come from delivering those valuable freedoms.

Red Hat and IBM have a selection of programs ready for you in the new Red Hat Marketplace. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Sept. 9, 2020, 12:42 p.m. PT ...

Last year, Red Hat rolled out its Software Collections, allowing users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run late-revision versions of popular software packages without sacrificing support or ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is due in early October, according to the company. Typically, companies have to acquire software from multiple companies in order to assemble Linux-based server systems.

Red Hat Chief Executive Jim Whitehurst has gotten good at selling his company to investors and the public. The open-source software maker, he says, is "sort of like a Facebook or Wikipedia for code.

Red Hat will continue to support customers using the Xen virtualization software through the life cycle of the RHEL 5 operating system — until at least 2014, the company said.

Red Hat was appalled to learn that [Stallman] had rejoined the FSF board of directors. As a result, we are immediately suspending all Red Hat funding of the FSF and any FSF-hosted events.