A friend recently asked me if I really wanted VMware, a company with a former Microsoft guy in charge, VMware, to buy Novell? His unspoken message was “Wouldn’t that be horrible for Novell’s Linux?” Bless his heart, clearly he hasn’t been paying attention to the relationship between VMware and Microsoft. VMware, a semi-independent fiefdom of [...]
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VMware doesn’t like Windows
September 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · VMware · Virtualization · Windows
Linux on the Cloud: The Ubuntu Way
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments
Ubuntu Linux is best known as the most popular desktop Linux distribution, but it’s developing a reputation as the easiest Linux for enterprises to deploy on the cloud. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has always had many enthusiastic user and developer fans. It’s a different story within the enterprise. Canonical has been trying to [...]
Tags: Business · Canonical · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System
Red Hat heads into the clouds, not into an acquisition
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments
Get over it people. Red Hat is not getting acquired anytime soon. I know, I know, you’d heard all the rumors. Here’s the truth as I see it: If Red Hat gets acquired anytime soon, I’ll eat my fedora. It’s not happening. What is happening, as Paul Cormier, EVP of Red Hat, announced this morning [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Red Hat
Is Oracle building its own software stack?
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments
If you spend much time in a CIO or CTO’s office, you’ll have heard the phrase “software stack” a million times. It usually means a suite of operating system, utilities, and applications designed to deliver various services. For example, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) stack is what lies behind many Web sites, and the [...]
Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Database · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Oracle · Unix · Virtualization
Novell takes SUSE Linux to the cloud with Amazon
August 11th, 2010 · Comments Off
BOSTON, Mass. — Novell was to have announced at LinuxCon that users will be able to run their own customized instances of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and 11 on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. While the announcement was pulled at the last minute, I’m told that the marriage of SLES and AWS [...]
Tags: Amazon · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Novell · Operating System