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Novell has delivered its Q2 financial results. The company reported $30 million of product revenue from Open Platform Solutions of which $29 million was from Linux Platform Products--up a very healthy 31 percent year-over-year. As Matt Asay notes Novell still lags Red Hat, but enterprise Linux is a two-horse race again.....
Source Labs' Self-Support Suite now supports the open source Eclipse development environment.....
Can Rubinius, a Ruby virtual machine written in Ruby bring back excitement to the open source scripting language?.....
Recently, I got the opportunity to pose a few questions to key people involved with open source efforts at Microsoft, including Sam Ramji (the recently promoted head of Microsoft's open source and Linux efforts), Ori Amiga (Microsoft Group Product Manager, Live Developer Platform), and Susan Hauser (General Manager of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing). They offered up some thought-provoking input on what open source needs, Novell, China, Live Mesh, and other topics. I thank them for taking the time, and please read on for their comments.
As the LinuxWorld Expo conference, slated for August 4th to 7th in San Francisco, starts to take shape, more news is emerging about events to happen there. Oracle CIO Mark Sunday, IBM VP of Open Source and Standards Bob Sutor, and Kevin Clark, Director of IT Operations for LucasFilm are all slated to give keynote addresses. As of today, conference organizers have also announced a charitable Installfest event, where show attendees will be invited to customize donated hardware with open source software, to put computers in the hands of underprivileged children.
In addition to our recent coverage of a significant vulnerability in the Debian implementation of OpenSSL, Daily Tech has some analysis.....
The European Union is going to investigate Microsoft's plans to support Open Document Format in MS Office.....
Novell: India is gung-ho about open source.....
Is Google bucking open source conventions with Android? Will it pick Git to manage Android?.....
At $250, a Hong Kong-based manufacturer has one of the lowest priced Linux laptops.....
Novell and Red Hat have upgraded their Linux offerings. Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2) while Red Hat shipped Version 5.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both upgrades include improvements at the desktop and server level. They include networking enhancements, virtualization additions, and improvements in hardware support. Here's what you'll find under the hood.
Fedora 9, the community-driven Linux distribution from Red Hat is out. Bruce Byfield has some interesting thoughts on it.....
Openbravo, developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Point-of-Sale (PoS) solutions has received $12 million of second round funding.....
Ingres OpenROAD, the companyοΎs platform for rapid application development, is now open source.....
InformationWeek has an interesting interview with Microsoft's open source chief Sam Ramji.....
Open-Xchange and Parallels are integrating Open-Xchange open source e-mail and collaboration software with Parallels.....
Novell's Mono, which aims to create an open source, cross-platform set of tools compatible with Microsoft's .Net programming framework, has made the first, though incomplete public release , of Moonlight, an open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight browser plug-in.....
The third and last beta of OpenSUSE 11.0 has been announced, and it reportedly fixes over 700 bugs.....
Interesting analysis: A Tale of Four Kernels.....
Strong passwords are no panacea as SSH brute-force attacks rise.....
As we reported last month, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort has had rocky times recently. The company has just announced a partnership with Microsoft to put Windows on OLPC laptops, although Linux-based open source versions of the sub-$200 laptops will stay in production. The laptops are targeted at children in developing nations. Recently, several key executives have left the project, including former president Walter Bender. Questions swirled about Bender's reasons for leaving OLPC, but now, in a surprise twist, he has resurfaced. Bender has announced Sugar Labs, a new foundation focused on taking the Sugar user interface in the OLPC laptops to other hardware platforms.
