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VMware doesn’t like Windows

September 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · VMware · Virtualization · Windows

VMware should buy Novell

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Novell’s history has been full of ups and downs. Once, with NetWare, it was the networking operating system powerhouse. Then they tried to be a consulting company. More recently, Novell has been both a Linux company and a friend to Microsoft. VMware has long been the go-to business virtualization company. But now everyone is in [...]

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Tags: Business · Infrastructure · Linux · Mergers · Novell · Operating System · VMware · Virtualization

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 [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Database · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Oracle · Unix · Virtualization

HP: The Linux distributor?

June 16th, 2010 · Comments Off

Hardware companies don’t tend to have their own Linux distributions. IBM uses Linux everywhere, but they don’t have their own Linux. Dell will be happy to sell you notebooks and netbooks with Ubuntu or a workstation or server with RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). But, no major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has had a house-brand [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Desktop · HP · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Mergers · Open Source · Operating System · SmartPhone · Tablet · Virtualization

Novell launches SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP 1

May 19th, 2010 · Comments Off

Novell launched SLE (SUSE Linux Enterprise) 11 SP 1 today, May 19th. At first glance, this major update to both SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) is quite impressive. Technically, SLE 11 SP1 is based on openSUSE 11.2, the Novell community Linux distribution, which was released in November, and the [...]

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Tags: Business · Linux · Microsoft · Novell · Operating System · Virtualization