03.23.07
Posted in Deals, Deception, Dell, Finance, Fork, Hardware, HP, Marketing, Oracle at 12:33 pm by Shane Coyle
Recently, Oracle announced that their Linux offering was picking up customers, most notably Yahoo!. Of course, Ellison had gone a little too far when he implied that Oracle had displaced Red Hat at Yahoo!, a statement that Yahoo! themselves disputed.
Well, now there has been some reporting that Ellison has also claimed that Oracle has signed up Dell, CDW and HP as resellers for Oracle Enterprise Linux. So far, it looks like these statements may not be holding up to scrutiny either:
Ellison also said Oracle had signed HP, CDW and Dell as resellers for Oracle’s Enterprise Linux (OEL). Oracle entered the Linux support business last fall when Ellison announced he would be undercutting Red Hat by offering direct Oracle support.
Turns out, Ellison was a little off on his reseller claims, though not by much.
Dell has not responded to request for comment from internetnews.com, but HP has. From what Doug Small, worldwide director of R&D of HP’s Open Source & Linux Organization wrote in an e-mail sent to internetnews.com, it looks like Ellison might have been just a little ahead of himself.
“HP and Oracle are in discussions about partnering and supporting OEL. Meanwhile, HP is testing Oracle Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, as well as HP StorageWorks products.”
Small declined to speculate on the potential business potential that OEL might represent for HP, though he noted that his company feels confident enough to invest in testing its products with OEL.
So, it may come true, it may not, but these are the types of potentially misleading public statements by a company’s CEO that should be scrutinized just as much (if not more) as those made by a marketing professional.
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01.12.07
Posted in HP, IBM, Marketing, OpenSUSE, Servers at 2:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
In a recent writeup titled “Novell a Johnny come lately?”, one guy reckons that Novell is late at the scene.
Novell is piggybacking on its recently announced Linux based partnership with Microsoft to promote its new Zenworks interoperable solution for the management of virtual machines in the corporate environment.
Industry analyst Richard Ptak, one of the principals in Ptak, Noel, & Associates said Novell’s introduction of a “desktop to data center management solution” might have been significant if it had been announced “eighteen months or even one year ago” stated Ptak.
“Novell is not tops here, right. They are way behind where IBM and HP and EMC are in the breath and depth of solutions.”
Offering management solutions for virtual machines is a new and hot market, but Novell is following in the footsteps of other already established players in the systems and server management marketplace that are specifically focused on virtualization, process management and asset management, Ptak explained.
“It is certainly good that they are in the marketplace. [Novell] talks about being able to manage Vista and Novell’s version of SuSE Linux. But it doesn’t really mean much in terms of the platform manageability.”
Meanwhile, a few prominent bloggers ponder the meaning of DistroWatch figures. We pondered this ourselves several times before [1, 2, 3, 4].
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12.15.06
Posted in HP, IBM, Novell, UNIX at 2:12 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Structural and secreterial changes in Novell this week:
Weekend ‘reading list’:
Additional remark: the event-driven and release-sensitive DistroWatch currently ranks Opensuse first. This 1st place comes with a strong condition. Unsurprisingly, this occurred around the time of the most recent release. Bear in mind, therefore, that it occupies the first spot for a one-week average, but whether it’s sustainable once the hype has faded and the reviews have aged is another key question.
New distributions with newer packages are due to be released soon. Thus, these figures are misleading and serve as a poor overall indicator. DistroWatch have long-term averages that better reflect on a momentumless state. This clarifications is an important one because Novell is likely to spin arbitrary observations in their favour, just as they did early in the week.
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12.13.06
Posted in Deals, Finance, HP, Marketing, Microsoft at 12:41 am by Shane Coyle
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. said they plan to announce an "enterprise agreement" on Wednesday without disclosing any details about the deal.
Go ahead and speculate… I do find it amusing that they already are declaring their intention to not disclose any details about the deal. ;^ )
Update (Roy): more details emerge
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