When Novell announced a reorganization this week, The VAR Guy took some time to digest the news. He sipped his latte and mulled Novell’s stated direction. Now, our resident blogger is ready to weigh in with an opinion. Specifically, keep an eye on Novell Senior VP Joe Wagner.
Read more »Major gains for Red Hat demands increased commitment from partners
In line with Red Hat’s 25% revenue growth this year, partners have seen a massive increase in demand for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and associated professional services. Skilling up with Red Hat certifications is the quickest way to meet those demands.
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Canonical’s Shuttleworth: We’ll Have New CEO In 2010
The big news in the Ubuntu world this week is Mark Shuttleworth's announcement that he'll be stepping down as CEO of Canonical and transitioning the CEO crown to Canonical insider Jane Silber. Here's the news, with some thoughts on what this means for Ubuntu and Canonical.
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Amberdms gives open source accounting green light
New Zealand software company Amberdms has released a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.
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Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu 10.04 alpha steps up
Canonical announced that Mark Shuttleworth will be stepping down as CEO in March to be replaced by Canonical COO Jane Silber, reports eWEEK. Meanwhile, the Ubuntu project has released its first alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx"), which speeds boot-time while kissing the GIMP editor goodbye.
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Novell Reorganizes
In January 2010 Novell will consolidate four business units down to two and eventually say farewell to managers Jeff Jaffee and Roger Levy.
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Looking forward to in Moodle 2.0
A quick glance at the features of the upcoming Moodle major release
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Red Hat will drop Itanium support in Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat is dropping support for Intel's Itanium processor in Enterprise Linux 6, the next major release of its operating system, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
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Can Tech Data Energize Open Source Partners?
It has been roughly a month since Tech Data launched Open Tech — an open source channel partner initiative. Why is the big distributor interested in the open source market? And how is Open Tech performing so far? I caught up with Tech Data VP Stacy Nethercoat for answers. Here's the interview.
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At $30, Red Hat shareholders have a merry, merry portfolio
Shareholders in Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) are having a merry, merry Christmas with lots of profits in their portfolio stockings.
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Put the Red Hat on
Ballmer and Hovsepian are failing once again to obstruct the leader in GNU/Linux servers
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Red Hat Earnings Preview: Still Up?
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) is set to report its third-quarter fiscal 2010 earnings at the close of market today -- capping off an active quarter of new releases and business activities for the enterprise Linux vendor.
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Computer Operating Systems – Which One is Right For You?
The majority of personal computers owned by average Joe’s and Jane’s are most likely to feature a version of Microsoft’s Windows while businesses might run either Windows or some version of Linux.
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SugarCRM CEO Seeking to Double Revenues in 2010
SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin loves stretch goals. A case in point: Augustin hopes to double SugarCRM’s revenues in 2010. To get there Augustin will need help from numerous Software as a Service (SaaS) partners. Here’s the open source CRM company’s strategy.
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Red Hat Grows by Taking Windows, UNIX Share
Once again, Linux vendor Red Hat has beat expectations and defied the gravity of a down economy.
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