5 posts tagged “novell”

I've actually been a fan of Novell since Netware 3.1.2 - I believe it was.  However, it seems that they could never actually, um, sell the products they had.  That's why I was surprised when a buddy of mine sent me this link.

Here's the first installment:

Quotes from the Infoworld article:

Perhaps most interesting for readers of this blog, however, is who employs these developers. Keep in mind that some people don't use their corporate email address when working on the kernel, so LWN filled in this information when they knew it, and reached out to developers when they didn't. So, this list is imperfect, but probably as good as
anything else one could put together.

The list gives Red Hat a lot of support in its claims to be innovating in the kernel space. With nearly 15% of the heavy lifting being done by its developers (nearly double that of any other company, and triple its nearest competitor), it also means that Red Hat (as well as Novell,
which does a fair amount of kernel work, too) can legitimately offer superior support on Linux. Support that Oracle's PR fluff just can't match. (Oracle contributed less than 1% of the kernel work.)

CIO Insight each year solicits its readers to vote on the top IT vendors. As you know, Red Hat was rated #1 for the last two years. Pretty impressive.

This year, Red Hat is still one of CIOs' top three vendors, as reported here. The interesting thing to me is not that Red Hat dropped a few places (I'd be ecstatic to be in the top 10, much less consistently rated among the top three), but rather by who sits in the top two slots:

CDW and Trend Micro. Resellers, both of them.

In other words, Red Hat is still the top software company for value (and Cisco is the top hardware company). In fact, as seen below, Red Hat (of all vendors) was

• Rated #1 for increasing those company's revenues;
  
• Rated #2 for lowering costs; and
  
• Rated #3 for meeting ROI expectations.
  
• 90% of its customers would do business with it again.

This is tail-kicking performance and execution. People wondering why Red Hat continues to generate excellent bookings and profit growth need look no further than these numbers. Something for all open source companies to emulate. (Btw, Novell was #23 and Microsoft was #24, which is great for both companies, but not quite #3.)

Pilfered from InfoWorld.

According to Microsoft it's a patent deal and according to Novell it's an interoperability enabler and joint sales agreement. Now Novell insists it hasn't acknowledged that Linux treads on Microsoft IP, and says only that "The intended effect of this agreement was to give our joint customers peace of mind." It's been an eventful week...

At the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference the other day in Seattle, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) picked up the biggest, fattest, slitheriest worm out of that can of worms he opened up when he cut that deal with Novell and got Novell to squirming and wishing he hadn't.

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From ZDNet:

Just days ago we were all asking what Red Hat did to deserve an open assault from Oracle and possibly Novell and Microsoft.  

Perhaps all that consternation was a tad premature. After all, the Novell and Microsoft pact on Linux isn't what it's cracked up to be and the two sides are already bickering. Novell even penned an open letter on its rift with Microsoft. So much for a hastily arranged reactive partnership.

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