Novell Partners Get Certification Deadline Leeway, Apr 04, 2007

Novell partners have till the end of the month to get authorized for the company's wares, but some who cannot make that deadline may get a break.

Open source community members expect the long-awaited GPL 3 (or at least another draft of it) to be unveiled this Saturday at a Free Software Foundation meeting in Cambridge, Mass.

Several Oracle solution providers said most of their Oracle customers are moving to Linux or are new customers requesting Linux implementations.

When Oracle releases Siebel 8 later this year, the venerable CRM application will, for the first time, run on Linux servers.

Alternatives to Microsoft business software are available, including operating systems, CRM, e-mail, and even word processors. Google's new Web-based business software provides even more options.

The next Community Edition Open Source will consist of the mail server, a Web services API platform, an installer, an administration console, Scalix Web Access Mobile, and new search and indexing services, the company said.

We definitely see Linux as the fastest-growing operating system platform for our application server and database server. But obviously, it's the fastest-growing from a very small point. It's not going to go away. It's going to be a significant play, but we also have a significant market share of customers coming in on Windows.

IBM is putting dough behind an effort to encourage partners to forklift Exchange Server users to Notes/Domino on Linux.

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

A recent report shows Linux failing to gain much traction on the desktop. But interest at the server level continues to spur vendor investment, particularly in e-mail access and databases

Petra Heinrich, who spearheaded SUSE's much-respected channel program, has left Novell, the company confirmed Thursday.

On Friday, the company said it is contributing some 30 projects to SourceForge.net, a repository of open source code and related material.