Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

What does Novell purchase of SuSE mean for the rest of the enterprise vendors? Without question, it signals that Novell is back in business again. As its NetWare network operating system (NOS) dropped down to 4 percent market share, Novell had become an afterthought in the enterprise. Novell was left with only its loyal customers […]

While many Linux users applaud the surprise marriage of Novell Inc. and SuSE Linux AG, Linux market leader Red Hat Inc. isnt ready to salute its new competitor. Red Hat, which has dominated the North American Linux market, now faces not simply Nuremberg, Germany-based SuSE but Novell, a company with deep roots in the enterprise […]

We listened to the “We all love each other and everything is going to be wonderful” press conference, looked at reactions from our readers to the original “Novell buys SuSE” announcement, monitored and asked questions in assorted IRC channels, and talked to contacts at Novell, SuSE, Ximian, and elsewhere. But whatever we say (or anyone […]

From the company that turned away early Linux pioneers Bryan Sparks and Ransom Love, Novell Inc. is completing its reinvention by buying SuSE Linux AG for $210 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the resolution of shareholder agreements. It all goes well; Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of […]

Novell buying SuSE may be the smartest thing either company ever did. Yes, Im serious. Think about it. Novell had great stuff all down the enterprise line: first-class directory services with eDirectory; rock-solid groupware with GroupWise; the exteND suite is as good a Web services and application server platform thats out there today; the list […]

When Microsoft Corp. launches Virtual PC 2004, a Linux version of the software wont be along for the ride—at least not officially. Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK.com that an upgrade to Virtual PC—software it purchased from Connectix Corp. in February that enables users to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation—is close to being […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum A while back, someone asked me why the open-source BSD operating systems arent as popular as Linux. Its a good question. Technically speaking, the BSDs are often every bit as good as Linux. Indeed, when it comes to security, OpenBSD is the best of breed. Indeed, you can argue […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Im sitting here at the Linux Enterprise Forum. Around me are about 350 attendees, half from the government, half from the corporate world; half with technical titles, half with management titles. But it seems they all share the belief that Linux is the enterprise operating system of today, not tomorrow. These people do not […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Red Hat Inc. on Wednesday released the next version of its flagship enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. This new edition, based on the Linux 2.4.21 kernel, supports seven 32- and 64-bit architectures: the Intel x86 and Itanium; the AMD64; and the IBM zSeries, iSeries, pSeries and S/390. RHEL also boasts a […]

Discuss This in the eWEEK Forum WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a presentation that underscored Oracle Corp.s support for Linux in the enterprise, Jim Enright, director of Oracles Linux Program Office took the keynote stage at the Enterprise Linux Forum here on Wednesday to describe how the open-source OS helps Oracle customers and the company itself. Noting Linus […]

Is Microsoft behind SCO? Well, of course it is. Do you really think Microsoft needed a new SCO Unix license? Please! But you can forget about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer meeting by some high-tech Redmond cauldron at midnight to plot about how theyll get Linus Torvalds and his little operating system, too. Thats not […]

Forbes Magazine Senior Editor Daniel Lyons was shocked—shocked!—to find that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) actually enforces the GNU Public License (GPL). And he thinks these defenders of free software are actually endangering Linuxs acceptance (just like The SCO Group). Maybe its just me, but doesnt licensing and intellectual property allow you to have some […]