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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.
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.....
ZDNet U.K. is out with some interesting analysis of the LiMo Foundation's announcement that Verizon Wireless, Mozilla and several other organizations are joining up with it. According to the ZDNet U.K. report, there may be some moves afoot by two of the very well-known Linux distribution companies that currently operate in the enterprise space to join LiMo and combine mobile open source applications on Linux phones with enterprise open source deployments.
Andy Patrizio, over at InternetNews.com, is trotting out that tired old question once again: where are the open source billionaires? as if that was somehow relevant or necessary for open source to be worthwhile. Patrizio also suggests that open source is being carried by large vendors, but doesn't seem to grasp the benefits that the vendors are getting out of open source.
