Novell Shares Fall as Sales Disappoint, Dec 08, 2006

Shares of Novell, which sells networking software and computer-consulting services, fell 5.4 percent yesterday after fourth-quarter sales missed estimates.

The proposed GPL version 3 has suffered the slings and arrows of outraged Linux developers, and its anti-patent provisions give companies the twitches, but one prominent open-source project, the Samba Team, is ready to switch to the new license as soon as it's approved.

Despite loud arguments over Novell and Microsof's relationship, and attempts by Ubuntu to talk openSUSE developers into coming over to their distribution, openSUSE 10.2 has arrived sooner than expected.

Some 75 towns across New South Wales have started accessing the Internet through Linux-based satellite routers in what is said to be largest network of its type in Australia spanning upwards of 800,000 square kilometres.

OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner.

There are many things about GNU/Linux which merit complaint. But it is extremely doubtful whether anyone can find anything to complain about with regards to the versatile nature of the operating system.

The OSDL's Desktop Working Group recently concluded a survey on what areas of development are most important to desktop Linux users. The results, now in, will be put to immediate use at the next Desktop Architects Meeting this week in Portland.

A battle is being fought in the arcane world of international standards, with piles of money and long-term access to digital documents at stake.

When executives from VMware Inc. and commercial Linux vendor Red Hat said they would expand cooperation between the two companies on the Linux front, it signaled a possible shift in the way IT managers might look at operating system distribution in the future.

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