Most people, who like Linux, love Ubuntu. Oh they may object to Ubuntu’s new Unity desktop, but at day’s end, they still use Ubuntu. Technology businesses though have a more jaundiced view of Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company. Canonical, though, is now taking steps now to make its potential hardware and software partners happier. First, Canonical [...]
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Ubuntu Linux gets serious about business partners
July 27th, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Canonical · Linux · Operating System · Reseller
Now what Novell?
March 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off
There’s nothing like starting a technical conference, like Novell’s BrainShare, off with a bang. Or, in this case telling Elliot Associates’ unwelcome offer of not quite $2-billion for the company that Novell has no interest in selling out, not for that little anyway. I think this was a smart move by Novell’s management. I think [...]
Tags: Business · Linux · Management · Mergers · Novell · Operating System · Reseller
When SCO is dead and buried
May 31st, 2009 · Comments Off
There was a time when SCO was a great company. No. Seriously. SCO Unix was a great Unix for x86 systems, and, for a brief shining moment it looked like SCO would bring together the best things of both Unix and Linux. Then, SCO’s ownership got it into their heads that trying to take IBM, [...]
Tags: Business · IBM · Legal · Linux · Reseller · SCO
Linux gets reseller friendly
April 14th, 2009 · Comments Off
I spent many years covering the reseller and integrator side of technology. These are the businesses that you, as a private person, have probably never heard of, but they’re essential partners for companies that use software and hardware. In short, all companies. So I was happy to see that SYNNEX, a leading software and hardware [...]
Tags: Business · Red Hat · Reseller
XP just won’t die
December 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
Microsoft will never admit that Vista was a major mistake, but it was. People who tried it, hated it. Businesses have stuck with XP, or are moving to Macs or desktop Linux. Microsoft knows it too. That’s why Microsoft is, out of the public limelight, enabling white-box computer manufacturers to keep selling XP well into [...]
Tags: Business · Microsoft · Operating System · Reseller · Windows