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Posted in Finance, Identity Management, Mail, Marketing, Microsoft, NetWare, Novell, Red Hat, Security, SLES/SLED, Videos at 9:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Dull week passes by, but we pick up and present some of the minor developments surrounding Novell
IT is a holiday, so this one will be short.
Novell was mentioned occasionally in light of Red Hat's good results.
=> ↺ mentioned occasionally | Red Hat's good results
Rival Novell, Inc. (NOVL | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating), which is the world’s second largest seller of Linux software, earlier this month reported a wider fourth quarter net loss, hurt by goodwill impairment and restructuring charges. However, the company’s quarterly earnings per share, excluding items, beat analysts’ estimate as did its quarterly revenues. The company also forecast first quarter revenue above analysts’ estimate.
More on Novell’s “reogs”, which are a lot more than just that:
=> ↺ “reogs” | a lot more than just that
Novell announced that in response to changing market conditions it was reorganising its existing four divisions, or units, down to two.
There is a new and very detailed report about Novell, titled “turning the Linux market into a healthy duopoly”
=> ↺ new and very detailed report about Novell
Key Chapters of the report:Linux: revenue and strategy driverAn increasing slice of Novell’s revenuesLinux in two different guises: SLES/D and OES17% of profitable revenues from SLE19% of profitable revenues from OESPositive sales feedback loop driverVia customers and (in)direct channelsVia SLE as well as OESIncreased reliance on MicrosoftMicrosoft has proven critical to Novell’s Linux growthNovell’s reliance on Microsoft is increasing and distortingOpening up the OpenSUSE project
This report is selling for $1,350.
Novell’s networking products received a little mention in this article which was titled “The year of AJAX and REST services?”
That iffy emerging technology was Microsoft Windows, and the versions that made me really jump in after years of skeptical puttering were Windows 3 and Windows NT. Lest you think that was an easy call, at the time the industry press was all over Novell networking and IBM OS/2 as the serious up-and-coming technologies for business. I did hedge my bets; I kept OS/2 available as a boot option on my DOS/Windows machine, and I worked with a client whose product used Novell networks at hotels, but my main focus was Windows.
A small portion on CNEs, whose skills lose a lot in terms of value:
=> ↺ on CNEs
As the support costs for this model grew, companies began to realize that perhaps the distributed model was not the panacea it was purported to be, and networked computing came back in vogue (Remember when everyone wanted to become a Microsoft MSCE or Novell Certified Network Engineer?)
An old and familiar comparison appears again:
=> ↺ old and familiar comparison | again
Microsoft was late to the market, but that didn’t stop the company from taking over other technology areas in the past. And that history led to some comparisons between VMware and Novell, the former software king that Microsoft dethroned in the 1990s.
Matt Richards from Novell has published this post where he is promoting his company a little.
=> ↺ this post
In fact, Novell research has found up to 50 percent of support issues result from problems introduced during product installation.
Another example:
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5 Things Every CEO Should Know About Cloud Computing[...]Ron Hovsepian, President and CEO of Novell, highlights five important elements in an article on Forbes.com….
Novell as a Xen backer:
=> ↺ Xen backer
Although x64 hypervisors are heading for commoditisation, they are not there yet. Even when they reach that stage, there is no guarantee that customers will be able to switch from one to the other easily. That raises an important question about the future of the open source Xen hypervisor and the virtualisation platforms built on it by Xen’s three main backers, Citrix, Oracle and Novell.
A journalist from Latvia has uploaded this new video covering Novell’s business activities around identity management.
=> ↺ video
There were also tiny portions about Groupwise support and SUSE flaws.
=> ↺ tiny portions about Groupwise support | ↺ SUSE flaws
Novell and F5 Networks are seen as potentially connected by the appointment of Gary Abad.
=> ↺ seen as potentially connected
Abad was most recently VP Channel Sales for Polycom, and has also served at Novell and Symbol Technologies.
More here:
=> ↺ here
Gary Abad will take the reins at the application delivery networking company, following his most recent position as vice president of Americas channel sales at Polycom.[...]Abad held sales management and business development at Novell and Symbol Technologies, which is now a part of Motorola.
Novell was mentioned in some press releases that shed light on existing partnerships.
=> ↺ press | ↺ releases
With this authorization, Koenig adds another feather to its already impressive list of authorizations which includes: Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell, LPI, CIW, CWNP, EC-Council and SCP.
Promotions for BrainShare 2010 are made more visible as Novell tries to make it a reality. Novell has just made another video in addition to 2 previous ones [1, 2]. “20TEN” is the motto.
=> ↺ made more visible | ↺ another video | 1 | 2
Speaking of videos, it looks like an older one about SUSE has been pushed into YouTube again and Novell is also mentioned in the latest Linux News Log.
=> ↺ an older one about SUSE has been pushed into YouTube again | ↺ the latest Linux News Log
That’s about it for this week. █
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