Novell today claimed to have more certified software partners than rival Linux providers. The chest pumping represents Novell’s latest thinly veiled attack against Red Hat. But take a closer look at Novell’s claims and you’ll see why Red Hat may take issue with some of Novell’s statements.

Fujitsu and open source software company Red Hat have expanded their global alliance to provide Linux support services to extend the bug fix support periods for the update releases 5.2 and 5.3 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.

Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat, Inc., was today named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 overall national winner. He was also named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2008 national winner in the Technology category.

Red Hat has announced the expansion of its international presence with the opening of an office in Dubai. The new office will provide support for its growing customer base in the Middle East and Africa and enable Red Hat to leverage experts with local knowledge to meet new business demands in the region.

There is a business behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and according to its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, that business is good.

In my corporate job we try to employ Debian whenever possible. We use it on our servers. I push for it as the default on the desktops. We sell services and software based around Debian servers.

At his opening keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Whitehurst said the company needs to start preaching to its customers to share their internally developed code with others.

Red Hat has settled patent suits with Firestar Software, Inc., Amphion, and Datatern related to the jBoss Hibernate package on a patent covering the Object-Relational Database Model which Red Hat contested was not in Red Hat Linux. The settlement is said to protect upstream developers and derivative works of the upstream software, thus protecting the overall Open Source community.