Novell Earnings: good news, bad news, Jun 08, 2006

Jack Messman, Novell's chairman and CEO, did his best to put a good spin on the news. "While Novell delivered on its financial guidance again this quarter, we have not lost sight of our goal to significantly increase our profitability by the end of fiscal year 2008," he said.

It’s a very serious matter. The GNU/Linux desktop is not ready. It is lacking an important, even essential, component without which it will fail. It’s got all the rest, the opposition has been squashed on every single detail except this one—but it is essential.

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss could have significant implications for the enterprise software market. Matthew Aslett reports

Open source evangelist Con Zymaris wants Australian PC assemblers to consider selling dual-boot Windows and Linux systems with a new plan that he claims would “double their profit margins.”

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