Red Hat Buys Cloud Software Vendor Makara

Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. announced it has acquired Makara, a developer of deployment and management solutions for applications in the cloud.

Makara’s technologies will speed up the development of Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service solution as part of its Cloud Foundations portfolio.

“Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud,”…

Red Hat Names Mark Bohannon VP of Corp. Affairs & Public Policy

Mark Bohannon is joining Red Hat, the open source solutions provider, as vice president of corporate affairs and global public policy, effective Oct. 1, 2010.

In his new role, Bohannon will lead Red Hat’s worldwide team representing the company’s interests before policymakers in government, industry consortia, and other venues on issues related to technology and innovation policy, open source and…

Open Source: Businesses Next Best Practice

Open source programs have been regarded with little validity and much skepticism over the years.  The concept that a program creator would allow their work and product to be accessed downloaded and used with no payment seems backwards and counterproductive in our capitalist market.

One company is helping break down the barriers between truths and realities of open sourcing is MySQL. This start up company of young and talented individuals…