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Linux and Virtualization Will March Forward Together

As we posted yesterday, next week's LinuxCon conference in Portland looks like one of the better open source events of the year to check in on, and you can do so remotely, from your computer. The Linux Foundation is putting the event on, and the foundation's Amanda McPherson has a preview interview up with one of the speakers, Bob Sutor from IBM, here. Sutor is the VP of Open Source and Linux at IBM, and makes some interesting points about how virtualization is the biggest opportunity for Linux of all. Is it?


Red Hat: Right On the Radar of Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM and Microsoft

We've written before about how, among large commercial open source companies, Red Hat's model of offering support and services for free software has proven to be a big winner. The company delivers quarter after quarter of outstanding earnings, and is building quite a large mountain of cash. At the upcoming Red Hat Summit, September 1st through 4th in Chicago, Cisco will be a major sponsor, and Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell will be on hand. As The Var Guy notes, for at least a few days ? at its own conference ? Red Hat will be seated at the center of the server universe. Meanwhile, Microsoft isn't ignoring the company, either.


IBM, Virtual Bridges and Canonical Offer Ubuntu-based Virtual Desktop

Today IBM announced that it has teamed with Canonical and Virtual Bridges to offer a Linux-based virtual desktop computing environment. With this product, IBM hopes to emphasize and increase adoption of its Lotus collaboration software, as well as promote the use of Linux (Canonical's Ubuntu) by way of Virtual Bridges' VERDE desktop virtualization platform.

The virtual desktop uses IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution software, and includes Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony (Symphony specifically uses the Open Document Format). While whether or not including Lotus applications will draw businesses away from purchasing licenses for costlier office/collaboration suites is as yet unknown, the Lotus name recognition coupled with the virtualized desktop might garner at least a second, serious, look from businesses wrestling with moving to more open platforms.



Consumer Desktop Linux from Red Hat? Fuhgeddaboudit...

In case you were wondering, Red Hat--fresh off a rosy earnings report that was interpreted by analysts as a welcoming present for new CEO Jim Whitehurst--won't deliver a desktop product for consumers anytime soon. In a news post at the company's site, team members write: We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future.

While there has been much speculation that Red Hat might target the consumer desktop, I'm not surprised by this news. Why isn't the company delivering such a product? Because it doesn't need to.



The Linux Kernel Team Grows--No End in Sight

Recently, I was talking to a tech journalist friend of mine who has been covering Microsoft since the company's inception. He made the point that nobody at Microsoft knows the whole code base of the Windows operating system anymore. Individuals once did, but the operating system is a big ball of code that no single developer knows from end to end.

That was the thought that came to mind when I saw the just-released survey on Linux Kernel Development from the Linux Foundation. The survey provides an exhaustive and fascinating glimpse at what it describes as one of the largest cooperative software projects ever attempted.