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SCO ousts Darl McBride

The SCO Group has eliminated the CEO post from its leadership roster and that means Darl McBride is out. This, according to its latest SEC filing.

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The Oracle conspiracy

For those who attribute Machiavellian motivations to everything Larry Ellison does, here’s a doozy of a theory.

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More shoes dropping at Yahoo

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OS choice for netbooks expands

First there was news that Hewlett-Packard, Dell and possibly other hardware makers would consider slapping Google Android on netbooks.

Last week, Intel said it’s jumping into the netbook OS market as well with Moblin, it’s own take on a Linux-based netbook OS. 

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Lessons of the great Gfail saga

It’s been just a few hours, but it’s safe to say that the February 24 Gmail outage will go down in history as the day that proves that people get what they pay for.

Kneejerk reaction was that Microsoft, home of the great paid email Exchange colossus, will make hay about Gfail. But then again, Microsoft freebie Hotmail and its Exchange/Outlook duo have weathered their fair share of complaints. In fact, the most laughable tweet this morning was “Gee, Hotmail never goes down.” Oh, really??? You, my dear, have a short memory.

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Another trade show bites the dust

Novell has canceled BrainShare 2009, its long-running customer and partner conference.

BrainShare 2009 was scheduled for March in Salt Lake City. John Dragoon, Novell’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer, said the company canceled the show because of the recession.

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Novell names new channel GM

More than a month after former channel chief Pat Bernard left Novell, the open source company has named her successor.

Javier Colado, a two-year Novell employee, will fill the newly created role of general manager of partners. (Bernard’s title was vice president of global channel sales.) In his new role, Colado will manage Novell’s worldwide channel strategy and report directly to CEO Ron Hovsepian, the company said.

Colado has previous channel experience at McAfee and Lucent Technologies.

Will telecom operators shake up competition in cloud computing?

AT&T’s announcement last week that it has entered cloud computing is a sign that software as a service (SaaS) players will see heavy competition from a powerful source — telecom network operators.

In June, Verizon also announced a so-called on-demand computing program, and analysts say other network operators are soon to follow.

For systems integrators trying to find their place in the already precarious SaaS market, it means going to bat against telecom operators that already have deep relationships with enterprises.

“There are companies out there that want hosted solutions, and they are going to say [to network operators] ‘you’ve got my circuits already, so you can host too,’” Chris Thompson, Cisco senior director of solutions marketing, said. Continued »

Novell channel chief departs

Novell channel chief Pat Bernard has left the company.

Novell said today that Bernard, its first vice president of global channel sales, left to pursue other interests. The company named Tim Wolfe, president and general manager of Novell Americas, as her acting replacement. Wolfe said in a statement that the company will move quickly to find a permanent successor.

Novell has seen strong growth this year, and the company expects that momentum to continue — with help from channel partners. Next year, more than half of Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise revenue will come through the channel, a company exec told me back in June. But that prediction could be off target if the channel’s leadership is in limbo for an extended period of time.

Bernard, a former Hyperion executive, joined Novell in November 2007. She took over for former channel chief Steve Erdman, who held the title of vice president of North American channels and aliances.

Ubuntu goes mobile

Canonical on Tuesday posted its Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition to its website.

This is a developers’ release based on the desktop edition of the Linux fan-favorite Ubuntu operating system. The release should help developers tailor apps to smaller screens

Ubuntu MID will start to follow the usual Ubuntu six-month release cycle starting with the Ubuntu 8.10 release.