Red Hat Looks to Expand Footprint

Red Hat Inc., a provider of open source platforms, said Tuesday it has taken steps to expand its footprint in the telecommunications market.

Those steps include the acquisition of Mobicents technology and new membership to the SCOPE alliance.

Mobicents adds a service logic execution environment (SLEE) to Red Hat's technology portfolio and complements J2EE to enable convergence of voice, video and data in next-generation applications, Red Hat said. Mobicents is certified for JSLEE 1.0 compliance.

Red Hat said it intends to develop a communications platform that integrates Mobicents with Red Hat middleware offerings. The company said more information about subscription product offerings will be available later this year. Meanwhile, Red Hat said it will offer a pilot/beta program for development and deployment of production applications and solutions that incorporate Mobicents technology.

Red Hat also has joined the SCOPE Alliance and will be contributing to the definition and prioritization of carrier-grade operating system and middleware requirements. The company said it will work with the Linux community to define a roadmap for availability of carrier-grade operating system requirements.

The SCOPE Alliance, formed in January 2006 by Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens, and was founded to drive the adoption of open source software and commodity hardware in carrier-grade environments as an alternative to proprietary Unix platforms. SCOPE works to define hardware and software requirements for open platforms in telecommunications environments. It currently develops requirements profiles for various hardware and software components, including a profile for carrier-grade Linux.

I know but you have to figure out what to put in the up2date conf file or the yum conf file.

No--those two files come with the distro, and they're all ready to go.

I’m good at fighting aliens and saving babes but that’s really about it.

Go with what you're good at, I guess. If you're not interested in expanding your skillset into adult skills, then leave the rest of us alone.

There, there, ye little linux cultist. Always keep in mind that a belief does not constitute a fact. Life is supposed to be fun. That is a fact. Therefore linux is anti-life. That is also a fact. Especially the man pages. That is a double fact.

There’s a reason the Popol Vuh and the Egyptian Book of the Dead and William Blake’s illuminations were in color. If it’s important it should be fun to read and look at for it’s own sake.

If it’s dull, it isn’t important.

The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is.
The more important it looks, the stupider it probably is.

Good rules of thumb.

“Beauty is Truth, truth is beauty, -that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.”

Find that in a man page. It’s impossible. No loonixtic has the living imagination to conceive of such a thing. Linux, a lot like socialism, is applied boredom. You can be mad at me because of that, but they are facts and therefore eternal and outside of me, a mere fictional character.

Of course, imagination is more important then loonix. Pretty much, it’s more important that most things that people confuse with being important.

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