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Novell's Earnings Down--Linux Business Disappoints

Novell has reported its financial performance for the November-to-January quarter, and the results aren't pretty. Earnings dropped 36 percent to $11 million, compared to $17 million in the year-earlier quarter. Sales fell short of analysts' expectations, although the earnings were very slightly above expectations. Novell's CEO Ron Hovsepian didn't just pin the results on the economy. He said invoicing was below our expectations in this weak economy,? and he noted that our Linux performance did not meet our expectations. What lies ahead for Novell's Linux business?


Novell Delivers Moonlight 1.0 for Rich Media on Linux

During both the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and President Obama's inauguration, many Linux users were seriously miffed that Microsoft's Silverlight rich application plug-in was required for viewing. Today, the Mono Project, one of Novell's open source initiatives, has announced the availability of the Moonlight 1.0 Firefox extension, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Linux and Unix platforms. According to Novell: Moonlight provides the platform Linux users need to use Silverlight and Windows Media content. In combination with Banshee, a Novell-sponsored project to produce an open source media player, Moonlight is part of a complete multimedia solution on Linux. Some questions are being raised about Moonlight's license, though.


Two Open Source Firms On List of Companies That May Not Survive 2009

From the Bleak Predictions Department, ChannelInsider has a slideshow up of 12 tech companies that may not survive 2009. The list of companies comes from solution providers that ChannelInsider surveyed, and includes some surprisingly big and powerful players. It also includes two leading, public open source companies. Who made the list?


Moonlight 1.0 Beta Available

Not long ago the Moonlight development team announced that the Linux Silverlight adaptation was drawing ever nearer to the 1.0 release. On December 1st, the Moonlight 1.0 beta version was released.

The Moonlight beta installs easily, and works quite well (though some sites respond better than others, this seems to hold true with Silverlight in a native Windows environment as well). The few hiccups I encountered during installation had more to do with network congestion and user error than the application itself.



Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 Nears Rollout, Calls for 2.0 Contributors

The Moonlight team has announced that the first beta release of Moonlight 1.0 is nearly ready for testing. Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight product.

The project hopes to get new contributors to come aboard as it finalizes the 1.0 release and pushes forward to Moonlight 2.0. Developer Chris Toshok points to some of the upcoming development tasks, and says that because the 2.0 release will be larger and features numerous self-contained subsystems, developers have more opportunity to make a solid impact on the project.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Novell as Microsoft's client state.....

Battling expensive textbooks with open source texts.....

Would Linux help Adobe pummel Microsoft?.....

Django on Jython: It's here.....

9 Linux myths debunked.....



Interviews: Four Open Source Questions for Microsoft

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.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

eWeek has a good interview with Ubuntu guru and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth, who claims Microsoft is fracturing the open source community.....

Asus' Eee PC is the most popular laptop featuring an open source OS. The company will share its development experience at the Taiwan Open Source Summit.....

Microsoft and Novell are expanding their open source initiatives into China.....

The head of Sun Microsystems' database division says MySQL will remain an open source product.....



Mono and Moonlight

Last week Novell released version 1.9 of the Mono open source .NET framework as well as a new IDE called Monodevelop. The newest version of Mono now supports a number of the advanced features found in Microsoftﾒs .NET 3.0 framework.

While Mono and Novell, which sponsors the project, have been much maligned by various factions within the open source community, the overall impact Mono could have on Microsoft and the open source community could in fact be large.



Mono: Maturing, but Relevant?

The Mono Project has reached a couple of milestones recently: the release of version 1.0 of the MonoDevelop IDE, and the release of Mono 1.9, the beta for Mono 2.0. (Mono releases do not track .NET releases exactly, so Mono 2.0 will include a mix of features from .NET 2.0 and later versions). This advances the ability of open source developers to use the .NET platform, but how much does that matter?