THIS WEEK, just like the last, has been exceptionally quiet for SLE*. Novell's SUSE was mentioned in a few places, but it really took quite a bit of a stretch to actually find them.
This all begs the question whether Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco and EMC, along with Red Hat and Novell, are going to feel the need to be more vertically integrated in response.
The Altix 4700 setup was configured with Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 operating system and Oracle's JRockit JVM, and cranked through more than 9.6 million business operations per second (BOPS) on the SPECjbb2005 test. (One wonders why SGI and LRZ didn't give the SPEC Java test the whole machine, and perhaps bust through 19 million BOPS.)
The first step was an unexpected promise to open up that’s bearing fruit through code issued under the General Public License and interoperability agreements with Red Hat and Novell. Then the products came. The sweeping changes made to Office 2007 had already shown that Microsoft understood it could no longer consider its cash cow sacred, but the fact it’s taking the fight to Google with an online version of Office 2010 is impressively bold.
Novell director of Client Preloads, Guy Lunardi, said of the new solution running SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, “We’ve seen a great deal of interest from companies looking to lower the overall TCO of their computing infrastructures, but without making sacrifices to quality or end user experience. By repurposing PCs into thin clients, Project Borg leverages Linux to help to reduce costs while simplifying the move to VDI.”
BridgeWays, a division of Xandros, today launched a new Global Partner Program to bring cross-platform business opportunities to Microsoft System Center solution providers. The new program enables BridgeWays partners to extend single console management of business critical applications to thousands of current System Center customers that also deploy non-Microsoft virtualization, database, application, web, and communication servers on Windows, Linux, and Unix.