Novell announced quarterly results on December 3. So how are the company’s individual solutions groups performing — particularly the SUSE Linux solutions group? And what’s the latest with Novell’s partner efforts? The VAR Guy got some perspectives from Novell Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon. Here’s a recap.
Read more »Reality Check: Novell's SUSE Linux Sales
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What's a SUSE?
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Say what you will about Microsoft's products, one thing it does very well is the naming of parts. By adopting an almost childlike literalism, Microsoft makes it trivially easy to work out what its applications do. Free software, alas, takes a rather different approach.
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Keep track of your consulting times and invoicing with GnoTime
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One of those tools (GnoTime) takes keep track of time to new levels. Not only does GnoTime keep track of your time worked, it also allows you to keep journals of your activities as well as generate reports and invoices based on your time worked.
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What if Oracle's buyout of Sun falls through?
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If the buyout fails, MySQL has been reasonably independent, but Sun's other businesses would either have to find ways to go forward independently or find another buyer, said Florian Mueller, an early investor in MySQL.
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Red Hat Linux without the Red Hat
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Red Hat is the number one Linux company on the planet by a wide margin. Their flagship distribution, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), is great, and they have excellent technical support. That hasn't stopped other companies from trying to ride on their coattails, and lately more businesses are adopting Red Hat's Linux code base and offering support for it.
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Cisco Expands Linux-Powered SMB Push
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At the heart of Cisco's new SMB products is a different approach and a different operating system than that which it has traditionally delivered to big enterprise customers. As opposed to Cisco's own IOS operating system, the open source Linux operating system is the mainstay in the new SMB products
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Concurrent unhoods RedHawk Linux 5.4
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With Red Hat, Novell - and now Intel, thanks to its $884m acquisition of Wind River - all crowding into the real-time Linux space, Concurrent has to keep on its toes and keep its RedHawk Linux, well, current. With RedHawk Linux 5.4, announced Tuesday, Concurrent is slipping into Linux 2.6.31 and offering full compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4.
Read more »SugarCRM Gets a True Open Source Visionary in Larry Augustin
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I was pleasantly surprised to read that Larry Augustin had been named SugarCRM's full-time CEO. After spending much of the last decade as an investor and board member extraordinaire for many (most?) companies grouped in the commercial open source category, it is good to see Larry back in the CEO saddle. This is a vindication of sorts for Larry and his vision of an open source future.
Read more »Eucalyptus: Boosting Ubuntu’s Cloud Efforts?
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For the Ubuntu cloud strategy to succeed, Canonical is going to need a big assist from Eucalyptus Systems - which makes the engine within the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). But who exactly is Eucalyptus and is the company making progress with its own cloud efforts? Here's an update.
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6 of the Best Free Linux Data Warehouse Software
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A data warehouse is a repository of an organization's electronically stored data. Data warehouses are designed to facilitate reporting and analysis.
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Combining Flexibility with Control: Managing the "Complexity Hell" of Customized Linux Platforms
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OS groups are under pressure to tailor off-the-shelf Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms - but, today, it's flexibility at the expense of control.
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The open road
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At the recent Symbian Exchange and Expo (SEE) held in London, telecoms.com talked to John Forsyth, leadership team, Symbian Foundation, about the organisation's new direction and the threat from Linux and Android.
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What's a MySQL Partner to Do?
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Roughly a year ago, MySQL stood near the top of The VAR Guy’s Open Source 50 — which tracks the world’s most promising open source partner programs. Fast forward to the present and MySQL’s ownership remains in doubt. The reason: The European Union continues to scrutinize Oracle’s planned takeover of Sun and MySQL. For MySQL channel partners and ISVs what does the future hold?
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Has open source become a victim of its own success as businesses identify as it just to look good?
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Microsoft Azure to capture open source revenue streams
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When Amazon decided to offer MySQL via Amazon RDS, they did so without purchasing MySQL support from Sun. I've confirmed that Microsoft Azure is supporting MySQL on Azure without paying Sun for a MySQL Enterprise subscription
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