IDC is out with a new report forecasting Linux revenue from 2009-2013. According to a post on the data, from Novell CMO John Dragoon, in 2008, the Linux vendor community saw a 23.4 percent growth in revenue.
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Citrix: Novell's only option for virtualization marriage
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What is commercial Linux distributor Novell going to do about server and desktop virtualization? It's a good question, and one that the company's top brass has not really addressed. In July 2006, with the launch of SUSE Linux 10, Novell was the first commercial Linux vendor to ship a Xen hypervisor tuned for Linux.
Read more »Open source supercomputer compiler?
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Why open source may be the answer for companies going bankrupt.
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Red Hat (RHT) Technical Alert - Watch for 28.3% Uptrend Continuation
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Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is trading 0.6% higher (up $0.12 to $20.96) today on volume of 250,516 shares. The stock has traded within a 52-week range of $7.50 and $23.72.
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Canonical Landscape May Target Ubuntu Partners
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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is considering a new version of its Landscape remote management tool that may appeal to solutions providers and service providers. Here’s the scoop.
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Novell UK Channel Chief Leaves
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IDC: Linux support sales to break $1bn in 2012
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So you think companies sell $1bn in Linux support contracts a year worldwide? Think again. That isn't going to happen until 2012, and maybe not at all if the trends of using commercial distros without paying for support continue apace.
Read more »Open source Java caching vendors merge
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Terracotta has acquired EHCache, making it in turn an attractive acquisition target for VMWare. In any case, the acquisition is good for customer awareness and adoption.
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Novell vs. Red Hat: How their Linux strategies affect your data center
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More than 90% of all commercial Linux server subscriptions are from Novell and Red Hat, with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), respectively. A Gartner report gives Red Hat more than 60% of the paid Linux market, and Novell more than 30%. Why is Red Hat the Linux market share leader?
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Please Re-Lease Me and Let Me Serve Again
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If you're tired of throwing major money into your IT infrastructure every three to four years, try leasing and free yourself of those big money payouts that deplete your profits.
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Distro life cycles, updates and small business
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You will notice that some of the 'community' versions of the distros are supported for a much shorter time frame than the paid for company backed versions. There are those who say it is partially a technique employed by the 'sponsoring' company to encourage users to go to the paid versions, particularly in business related areas.
Read more »Red Hat takes on the recession
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Remember about five or six years ago when the open source software movement was going to beat the stuffing out of software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? That hasn't exactly happened.
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DOJ Gives SUN The GO
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If you thought the sale saga of Sun Microsystems ended in April, Thursday's news from Washington may have come as a surprise. Months after the ink dried on the deal between Sun and database heavyweight Oracle, the U.S. Department of Justice has finally gotten around to giving its blessing.
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Novell vs. Red Hat: 9 Days to Watch
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That nine-day period will provide a healthy reality check for the Linux market — and it may also reveal how open source initiatives are shaping up across the IT channel. Here’s why.
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Red Hat HornetQ debuts for open source messaging
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Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) today officially launched a new open source messaging system called HornetQ. The new effort has its roots in the JBoss Messaging platform, that has been around since at least 2006. In blog post, Red Hat developer Tim Fox wrote that," HornetQ is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
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