Novell defends SUSE Linux revenue performance, Mar 25, 2006

Novell Inc's president and COO Ron Hovsepian has defended the company's SUSE Linux business, maintaining that it is performing better than the company's revenue figures suggest.

The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker Cent OS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's hosting provider had simply botched a web server.

President Hugo Chavez has long been critical of big transnational companies, and now his government is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft Corp

So will this software delivery method revolutionize the industry like Michael Robertson thinks it will? Maybe, but chances are that it will take a long time.

FarStone Technology will introduce what it claims is the first-ever live system and data recovery application available for desktop Linux in mid-April.

Microsoft’s worst nightmare is that by the time these products ship, they will have become irrelevant, one insider said.

Linux users and open source fans have few options when it comes to computerized filing of their federal and state income taxes in the United States.

Microsoft can't afford to screw up like this. There are free alternatives to everything Microsoft sells, like the Linux operating system and the Open Office application suite.

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