JBoss founder departs Red Hat
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Linux seller confirms that outspoken Java server software executive won't return from paternity leave.
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Amit Yoran leaves the Department of Homeland Security a little over a year after joining.
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InfoWorld - Red Hat's new CEO plans to keep the company focused on its core Linux OS and middleware business while also improving the service it offers to customers, he said Thursday.
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Terry S. Semel, the ex-chief executive who is credited with reviving Yahoo and then losing touch, is leaving the companyâs board.
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Mitch Kapor will phase out his involvement in the Open Source Applications Foundation, which he founded in 2001.
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Terry S. Semel, the ex-chief executive  who is credited with reviving Yahoo and then losing touch, is leaving the companyâs board.
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(InfoWorld) - Red Hat said this week it had spruced up its Red Hat Command Center server- and application-monitoring service, eliminating the need for users to maintain a Red Hat-prescribed hardware appliance to collect monitoring data. The "scout" appliance has been replaced by software in the SaaS platform, which customers can now run on their own systems. "The customer now picks their own hardware and the software is now provided for free," said Andy Karandikar, Red Hat product manager for Command Center. Previously, users had to purchase a $900 x86-based white box for monitoring. Command Center is positioned for managed service providers, who resell it to their customers, and for small- and medium-sized businesses. Red Hat also addedÂ  the ability to export monitoring data in XML. This data is available for download, and offline archival and analysis. Prior to adding the XML capability, this type of offline archival could only be done in bits and pieces and in text form. "[Now] you can do it in XML, which is a more structured way that you can slice and dice the data," Karandikar said. Red Hat also improved the interface of Command Center so that it is more consistent with other Red Hat services and products. Red Hat Command Center monitors server components ranging from the operating system to applications. Red Enterprise Linux, JBoss software and a wide range of other IT infrastructure can be monitored including Windows. The Command Center service costs $192 per monitored server per year. Red Hat announced its "North American Value2" seminar tour, which features half-day seminars on transforming an enterprise with an open source-based approach to virtualization and SOA. The tour kicks off on September 11 in Minneapolis. "The Value2 tour is really a concerted push for Red Hat to get on the road and communicate our broader strategy as it relates to our open source architecture, how our solutions are being used in customer sites and the really get the message out there as to the value of the open source approach," said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management and Red Hat. Technologies such as JBoss middleware are featured, as is the MetaMatrix data federation technology acquired by Red Hat.
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Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that a long-standing and influential member of the Windows OS team has left, one of several recent and imminent executive departures that together represent a changing of the guard at the company.Rob Short, former corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group, left the company last month, according to a spokeswoman from Microsoft&#39;s public relations firm.Short had helped develop the Windows OS at Microsoft since joining the company in 1988. He was on the original Windows NT development team, which did some of the early work to optimize Windows for the PC architecture. Most recently, Short and his team were responsible for the design, development and testing of the core components of Windows.News of Short&#39;s departure follows the announcement last week that&#160;Jeff Raikes, head of Microsoft&#39;s Business Division, will leave the company in September. Raikes is one of the company&#39;s top executives, overseeing Office and all of Microsoft&#39;s business products. Microsoft has appointed Stephen Elop, a former executive at Juniper Networks, Macromedia and Adobe, to succeed him.At the same time Microsoft unveiled Raikes&#39; departure, it also said that&#160;Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development, will leave at the end of next month. Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#8217;s general manager of platform strategy, also plans to leave the company in the next month or so, Microsoft has confirmed.When Microsoft Chairman and founder Bill Gates leaves his day-to-day activities at Microsoft midyear, he will leave behind an executive staff that looks vastly different from how it did a few years ago -- which may not be such a bad thing, considering the 33-year-old company aims to generate more revenue from newer business models and technologies.&quot;It is interesting that the company so far seems to have had some successful outside hires [when it&#39;s] had a reputation in the past of chewing them up and spitting them out,&quot; said Rob Helm, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft.However, he noted that the departing Raikes was instrumental in transitioning Office beyond a mere set of desktop applications to become a bona fide business collaboration suite. So it hasn&#39;t necessarily been the Microsoft long-timers that have prevented the company from evolving beyond its core businesses, Helm said.&quot;If Microsoft is moving too slowly in the Web-based world it&#39;s not necessarily because the old guard is holding it back,&quot; he said. &quot;It may be more a matter of the sheer size of the company and the inherent difficulty of turning a ship that big.&quot;Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year. And Raikes&#39; replacement, Elop, won&#39;t start at Microsoft until the end of the month.
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Bruce Jaffe, who spearheaded the software giant's acquisitions activity, will leave the company in February.
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Bruce Jaffe, who spearheaded Microsoft's acquisitions activity, will leave the company in February.
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Chris Stone, second in command to CEO Jack Messman at Novell, has abruptly left the company he helped reinvigorate through the endorsement of Linux and the acquisition of SUSE Linux AG.
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After his company announced plans to acquire security and authentication tools from Netscape Security Solutions, Red Hat Inc. CEO and chairman Matthew Szulik spoke to Computerworld about the company's plans.
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Founder and primary investor Mitchell Kapor is phasing out his involvement in the Open Source Applications Foundation.
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Blogging software maker Six Apart  said on Friday Chairman and Chief Executive Barak Berkowitz was  stepping aside and would be replaced by Chris Alden, who had  run the company&#39;s professional software unit.
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Open source split Speculation is growing that one of Sun Microsystems' most influential figures has quit following the decision to open source Java.â¦
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Could become corporate developers' best friend Red Hat has announced the beta release of Red Hat Developer Studio, the new Eclipse-based IDE for the Red Hat family of solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.â¦
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Noted programmer Adam Bosworth leaving Google where he had been in charge of health initiatives.