Red Hat Government News

Featured articles:

• Note to Government Customers from Paul Smith
• Red Hat Summit 2007 Summary and Highlights
• Red Hat Completes Metamatrix Transaction
• Emerging Technologies: Developments in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Realtime
• New Podcast: Red Hat and Hewlett-Packard Partner on Certified Security Capabilities
• Fedora 7 Now Available

Red Hat Government News is a monthly newsletter designed to provide government agencies worldwide with the latest information on training, offers, events, and news articles.

NOTE TO GOVERNMENT CUSTOMERS FROM PAUL SMITH

These are exciting times for both open source and Red Hat. As you know, we just wrapped up our Red Hat 2007 Summit in San Diego where we announced Hill Air Force Base, a major division for the U.S. Air Force, as one of six winners of a Red Hat Innovation Award. I am pleased to inform you that an online voting community selected Hill Air Force Base as their top pick and has been named the Innovator of the Year. Congratulations Hill.

• Read the entire article.

Information sharing and collaboration is key for any successful partnership and Red Hat values its commitment to provide proven, industry-standard technology solutions. It is important to Red Hat to include you in our communications so we can share new case studies, information on emerging technologies within Red Hat, and events to keep you updated on the continued adoption of open source within the federal government. Please feel free to contact me or my team if you would like to know more about any of the articles featured in this newsletter.

Respectfully,
Paul Smith, VP of Government Sales Operations

RED HAT SUMMIT 2007 SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS

"We announced a pile of things at the Red Hat Summit. Lots of confusing articles have been written. Lots of press releases have been sent out filled with warnings about forward looking statements. Maybe you just want the run down on all the things that happened. This is your simple cheat sheet..."

• Read Chris Blizzard's entire Red Hat Summit 2007 summary.
• Or, simply watch the Summit highlight videos and see keynotes by Matthew Szulik, Brian Stevens, Matt Mattox, and David Pakman.

RED HAT COMPLETES METAMATRIX TRANSACTION

Today marks the completion of our acquisition of substantially all of the assets of MetaMatrix, Inc., a leader in data management and integration software. By acquiring these MetaMatrix assets, Red Hat enhances its JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) products with the next generation of data management and integration capabilities. Also, the acquisition of these assets provides Red Hat with a foundation in data management software. Customers will now be able to more easily migrate their applications by enabling data to be more accessible regardless of differences in data sources and formats.

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EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: DEVELOPMENTS IN RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX REALTIME

You may have heard the news from Red Hat's CTO Brian Stevens' keynote at the Red Hat Summit that we are building a realtime variant of Red Hat Enterprise. There were a few sessions at the Summit describing our initiative in more detail. For those of you who weren't there, we'd like to share some realtime info with you here.

NEW PODCAST: RED HAT AND HEWLETT-PACKARD PARTNER ON CERTIFIED SECURITY CAPABILITIES

Listen to the entire Red Hat public sector podcast series featuring Red Hat executives and partners. The podcasts help to extend and enhance your understanding of Linux, and includes open source news of interest to government agencies. Be sure to tune in for the newly released fourth episode.

In the fourth episode, Red Hat's Chris Runge speaks to Mike Balma, program manager for government solutions at Hewlett-Packard's Open Source and Linux Organization. Topics include: Labeled Security Protection Profiles (LSPP), Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Common Criteria certification, and HP's on-going partnership with Red Hat.