Novell's Linux Business Takes a Seat At the Grown-Up Table

CNet is reporting that while Novell still has a long way to go before they start making Red Hat nervous, they have at least gotten a seat at the grown-up table. Reporting 31% year-over-year growth in their Linux business, Novell attributes very little of this success to their Microsoft partnership, looking to their Redmond connection mainly for interoperability work. "Novell's core Linux business is growing. By 'core,' I mean that our non-Microsoft- related Linux business is growing. These are Suse Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions sold directly by the Novell sales force or by our channel partners, without any Microsoft certificates or Microsoft salespeople involved. However, the important thing is that our total revenue picture for Suse Linux Enterprise is growing, as our customers increasingly don't distinguish. As we've said before, Microsoft offers an alternate avenue for purchasing subscriptions but we are focused on growth of the whole category."

Comments

Re:Frosty Posts

[Pros_n_Cons]

You're right about government involvement. Thats why i dont read books. who knows what kinda words they can put in there without us knowing!

Infact im getting rid of Ethernet since nasa wrote most of the drivers.

Re:Geez, it took you that long to figure it out?

[y86]

I run 2 applications for a major retailer. One runs on AIX (and has some linux nodes), the other runs on MS Server 2003.

I've never been paged at 4AM because my Linux/AIX boxes rebooted in the middle of a major data aggregation job because of an automatic update.

In fact my AIX / linux boxes all have uptimes of over 700 days, except one of my new servers which has been up 200 days.

The windows server is relatively stable, besides the occasional freeze up(like 2-3 times a year it hardlocks). The real PIA is the updates rebooting them all the time.

Re:What makes SuSe Linux more interoperable?

[rrohbeck]

the first bullet point in your link explains it: "Only Linux distribution recommended by Microsoft and SAP" Translation:
if(you.suit()) {
    buy();
}
else {
    run_like_hell();
}

Re:Geez, it took you that long to figure it out?

[Anonymous Coward]

Be nice, the guy is obviously some kind of retard. (as evidence, he's the guy who gets called at 4am)