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Red Hat Announces Summit Speakers

March 17, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source software developer Red Hat, Inc. (redhat.com) announced on Wednesday the headlining speakers for their first annual Red Hat Summit 2005. The conference will be held in New Orleans from June 1-3 and joins various members of the open source community, including community contributors, developers, customers and partners.

ReadyHosting Hosts NASCAR Party

March 11, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting firm ReadyHosting.com (readyhosting.com) will join some of the biggest acts in country music and ARCA RE/MAX Series and NASCAR Busch Series’ top drivers at the upcoming ARCA, and NASCAR Busch Series weekend pre-race mixer at the Hotel Preston in Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday March 24, 2005.

Roaring Penguin Offers Free CanIt

March 1, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email filtering services provider Roaring Penguin Software (roaringpenguin.com), announced on Tuesday that its CanIt anti-spam software would be available for free to organizations with up to 50 email users.

Terremark to Host Peering Forum

February 16, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet exchange and network service provider Terremark Worldwide Inc. (terremark.com), the London Internet Network Exchange and Lucent Technologies announced on Tuesday that they will host more than 125 global peering experts from around the globe at the annual TerreBit Peering Forum. The conference will be held in Miami and the Bahamas from March 4 to March 7.

OSDL Unveils Updated Reference Document

February 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Open Source Development Labs (osdl.org), a consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, said on Wednesday that OSDL Data Center Linux Capabilities version 1.1, a public reference document for Linux distributions, is now available. OSDL said the new document, released a year after version 1.0, adds new focus in the areas of security, hot-plug, clustering and storage networking.

Sun Opens Access to OpenSolaris Patents

January 27, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced earlier this week that it will release more than 1,600 patents related to the Sun OpenSolaris operating system, to the open source community.

Red Hat to Hold First Annual Conference

January 26, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Linux distributor Red Hat (redhat.com) is holding its first annual conference for its community, customers and partners, from June 1 to June 3, 2005 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in Louisiana.

Red Hat Opens Netscape Directory Server

January 10, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to reports released Monday, Linux vendor Red Hat (redhat.com) is planning to release Netscape’s Directory Server to the open source community, which may improve scalability to current open source lightweight directory access protocol offerings, according to a developer for the Linux distributor.

Raleigh News Picks Hosted Solutions

January 4, 2005 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hosted Solutions (hostedsolutions.com), a data center and Web hosting solutions provider, announced on Monday the addition of the Raleigh News and Observer’s online property newsobserver.com as a new customer.

Trend Micro Provides Hotmail Antivirus

December 20, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Network antivirus and Internet content security solution provider Trend Micro, Inc. (trendmicro.com) announced on Monday that it has formed an agreement with MSN to provide antivirus scanning and cleaning protection for the MSN Hotmail Web-based email service. Customers of Hotmail will receive automatic protection anytime they send and receive email attachments via Trend Micro’s scanning and detection services.