Red Hat quarterly earnings up 29% to $164.4 million
Red Hat Inc. reported second-quarter revenues of $164.4 million, an increase of 29% in quarterly revenue compared with a year ago, at $127.2 million. Deferred revenue rose somewhat faster, climbing 32% to $496.9 million. Quarterly profits also rose, but by a...
Novell pledges to fix ZenWorks snafu
Sometimes stories about customer problems have happy endings. One day after publication, the Novell ZenWorks problem that I blogged about Sept. 17 appears to be on its way to resolution. Not that resolution was speedy; the issue was the topic of numerous...
Red Hat boosts open source at new CUNY lab, national campus tour
Novell ZenWorks 10 log-in snafu wipes out non-Microsoft desktops, IT director says
Sometimes the latest is not the greatest.
Just ask Grant Nickle, IT director at Louisville, Ky.-based Underwriters Safety & Claims. An avid...
Sourcefire strengthens virtualization security with RNA

Red Hat stonewalls on Microsoft interoperability plans
Novell Inc.’s recent coup of achieving bidirectional virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V -- SUSE Linux Enterprise can run as a guest on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on SUSE -- is a huge step forward for...
Competitor Citrix releases cloud products at VMware’s VMworld 2008

Citrix Systems Inc. is hardly shy about its presence at
Ubuntu’s mascot menagerie is a zoo of characters
Keeping track of the ever-changing ranks of the Ubuntu mascot menagerie is not for the faint of heart. My debut into LinuxLand was shortly before the introduction of the Hardy Heron and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS last April. Simple enough. Until today....
Red Hat mystifies with Qumranet purchase
Less than a week after Red Hat Inc.’s surprise $107 million purchase of Qumranet Inc., I remain mystified by this acquisition. Qumranet is the Israeli-based creator of the KVM open source hypervisor, which is incorporated...
No delays expected for SUSE/Microsoft virtualization connectors, Novell says
Some bloggers raised concerns that Microsoft would not release its Linux Integration Components on Sept. 8 as planned, concurrent with the release of its highly anticipated Hyper-V virtualization application. The components, which include special drivers for networking and storage, are expected...