Novell dives sharply having failed to offset the dwindling (legacy) business
Read more »Novell Results Are in: Net is Down Very Sharply (36%)
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Is Red Hat Taking Aim at Ubuntu?
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A representative of Red Hat told a reporter recently that the company, which abandoned desktop Linux years ago in order to devote its energies to the server market, "will indeed be pushing the Linux desktop again." Such a move would presumably present a challenge to Ubuntu, which has dominated the desktop scene for a long time. Or would it?
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French VAR Wins Major Open Source ERP Deal
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Do you still doubt the power of the emerging open source IT channel? Consider this: Axilom, a solutions provider based in France, has won a contract to deploy Compiere Inc.’s open source ERP (enterprise resource planning) system for La Poste, a global postal processing organization with 300,000 employees and 45 million customers. Here’s the scoop.
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Does Open Source Experience Help in Today’s Job Market?
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There’s a lot of chatter going around that open source excels in recession environments. I’m a little on the fence about that claim... but what I’m interested in talking about today is whether open source benefits anyone looking for a job right now. In theory, if open source companies grow in a recession, they should also be hiring.
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OpenOffice.org Base: Creating basic databases and tables
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When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they have never lost that mystique -- so much so that many desktop users will stretch the use of spreadsheets to cumbersome lengths rather than consider setting up a database.
Read more »The Beginner's Guide to Linux, Part 1: Finding the Right Distribution
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We are certain that many of you want to try Linux to see what it is like, but have no idea where to start or how to get into it. This article is the first installment in a four-part guide that will gradually introduce you to the Linux environment and how to adjust to it if you are a new user.
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Red Hat learns the white paper game
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One of the most time-honored traditions of technology marketing is the white paper. Red Hat is learning how to play this game, but at a cost and in a manner open source can live with.
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Software Company “Infinite Campus” Lies
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Recently, there have been two comments on my blog about Infinite Campus, both of which praise the quality of Infinite Campus. They were both made within an hour and a half. Hmmm… I thought I’d better look into this one a little bit more.
They were a lot worse than I initially thought.
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Free groupware takes on Exchange monopoly
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Open source Exchange rival Zarafa has added native support for Blackberry Enterprise Server to a roster of collaboration features that already includes Outlook interoperability, and integration with open source tools such as SugarCRM, OpenERP and Alfresco.
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Troubling times for OpenSUSE
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Some Novell developers, who were also contributors to the OpenSUSE project, were laid off by the company. This has caused some other contriburors to apparently ask the OpenSUSE board about the future of the project.
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Who's buddying up closer with Microsoft: Novell or Red Hat?
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I know for a fact that either Novell or Red Hat, or perhaps both, will be announcing next week that they'll be shifting their server virtualization offerings from Xen to XenServer. What I don't know is what, if anything, either one of them may be doing beyond that to further their virtualization partnerships with Microsoft.
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Business is booming for open source adopters
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We're in a downturn - we've heard it enough times itmust be true. We've all been asked to do more with less, to ensure our employees survive the coming year.
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Finding the right open-source price
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I'm currently working on pricing models for several new open-source companies, and I keep running into a similar set of challenges. The primary issue is that when you shrink a market, as open source does, you must to find a pricing model that solves the equation, meaning that your costs must substantially lower in order for you to make money.
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An open source to a brighter future?
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If you went to your bank manager and said you had a great idea for a business in which you gave away your core product to your competitors, it is likely you would be instantly shown the door and not just because of the credit crunch. Yet this is exactly what some of the most successful companies in the world are doing.
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Commercial Linux Distro Support Shootout
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Money can't buy you love; nor can it buy you happiness. But it just might bring you peace of mind. The Big 3 commercial Linux vendors; Canonical, Novell and Red Hat are ready to serve you through support subscription services for your Linux infrastructure.
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