Red Hat wraps up Jboss acquisition, Jun 06, 2006

Red Hat has completed the acquisition of Jboss.

Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux, a research firm said Monday.

BALLMER: Oh, the question is about Linux. Let's talk about it. Four years ago, people wrote that we'd be wiped out by Linux. Four years later, how are they doing?

Our core Linux business grew 20% quarter-over-quarter. Why? Our strategy is different than Red Hat's. They are approaching this as an edge server play, and it's an enterprise play. [In other words, Novell sells Linux as part of large company-wide deals, not just to run on individual servers.] We are making extra investments in Linux on the desktop and [products for retail] point of sale and banking that we think are going to be very successful. Desktop revenue grew 100% last quarter.

Shuttleworth said he is concerned about losing touch with the open source community as it chases the enterprise market, but doesn’t plan to go the way of Novell and Red Hat.

What would happen to the next Writely, or the next Scribus, or Abiword if the developers cannot afford fast lane fees? If you think this kind of abuse is far-fetched, then you haven't heard how AOL blocked e-mail mentioning www.dearaol.com.

Lenovo executives Monday backtracked from remarks last week that the company would not support Linux on its PCs, saying it would continue to pre-load Linux onto ThinkPads on a custom-order basis for customers who purchase licenses on their own.

VMware CEO Diane Greene said Monday that the virtualization software company isn’t worried about battling Microsoft and Linux distributors but will fight to ensure that the interfaces between the operating system and hypervisor are open.

Linux is insecure. Open source is insecure. Windows is insecure. All software is insecure.

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