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Is Linux Enough for Novell and Red Hat to Thrive?

While Novell's report yesterday that its quarterly Linux revenue soared 22 percent year-over-year was a positive note, and one that was expected, the real upshot of the company's earnings report was that every other part of its business sank. Overall, its revenues slipped to $216 million for the quarter, compared to $245 million for the comparable quarter last year. Despite the company's drum pounding about the promise and growth of its Linux business, Novell is a public company that needs revenues to come from more than one aspect of its business.?

As Matt Asay notes, Red Hat's financial performance has been much rosier during the recession, but there are also questions arising about why Red Hat's revenue growth is slowing. Both companies need more than just Linux business to grow over the long run, and there are good reasons to believe that Red Hat may be the one of the two that pulls a rabbit--or a series of them--out of its red hat.?



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Novell's Linux revenue soars 22 percent, while everything else tanks. The bad news was that overall, net revenue slumped to $216 million from $245 million for the third fiscal quarter of 2008.

Google's Summer of Code ends. 1,000 students from 69 countries contributed open source solutions in microfinance software, government data apps, and more.

Aussies coming through with a laptop per child. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has begun fulfilling a promise to give every high school student a laptop, offering Lenovo machines with Windows 7 and some surprising open source applications.

15 great Ubuntu tips For Linux power users. How to be lightning fast and clever at the command line, and more.



Upcoming Linux News Looms From Novell and Red Hat

As The VAR Guy notes, between today and September 4th, a lot of key information will roll in about the Linux market, and how Linux is faring in IT departments. Novell is slated to release its third-quarter financial results on Thursday of this week. The company has recently run into trouble drumming up deals and business on the Linux front, affecting its earnings significantly, but there could be news of a turnaround. Meanwhile, Red Hat has its Red Hat Summit approaching, September 1st through 4th in Chicago, and the excellent roster of speakers includes EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian, IBM's Bob Sutor, and many others. I'm betting that both Novell and Red Hat will have good news, and some interesting data to digest.


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?Boxee raises $6 million, announces other deals. The company behind the well-liked open source media center app is on a roll.

Investor reveals secret to $1.6 billion in open source success. VC Peter Fenton has spurred on four big open-source sales--JBoss ($350 million), Zimbra ($350 million), XenSource ($500 million), and SpringSource ($420 million).

If you have a proprietary partner is it still open source? Jaspersoft and Talend are teaming with two proprietary vendors to deliver a business intelligence solution for clouds.

Hands on with SUSE Studio. Novell's service allows you to create your own Linux distro respin using nothing more than a web browser.

Consider Linux for secure online banking. Because it isn't a big target for hackers, and for other reasons, it's an ideal platform.

A Moblin netbook by this fall? The first netbook pre-installed with the Moblin v2 operating system technology may reach market in October--on Asus' Seashell system.