I can imagine future forcasts, "Cloudy with a 50% chance of homicide". I would imagine 0% chance of homicide in a blizzard or hurricane, so it kinda makes sense. Kinda.
Very similar to Open suse's webpage called Idea Pool: http://idea.opensuse.org/. Last June opensuse and Novell stopped their normal work for a week to work on their favorite ideas from the idea pool. I hope they do it again as My idea was not selected:(.
As a Novell employee I disagree on all of your arguments but one - the kde versus gnome - I wish we could pick one but that ain't happening.
Yast and Redcarpet: Integrating redcarpet into yast was the right way to go. Since redcarpet (from Ximian) and Yast (from Suse) were able to collaborate and come out with a better solution shows that they have vision and execute the vision.
AppArmor vs SeLinux: see security wars Summary: Novell buys a best of breed security solution, then gives it to the community. RedHat wines: "In my opinion, Novell wants to split the market...".
Xgl vs Xegl: I don't see any confusion here, I think maybe you mean aiglxXegl is a completely new Xserver. So to compare the three projects: Xegl = really hard, Xgl = hard, aiglx = easy. I think the confusion around this comes from redHat. Novell chose Xgl, RedHat chose aiglx, Novell gets the credit, Redhat complains. Xegl is still a ways off.
Novell is putting significant investment into open source software (OpenOffice, Hula, Evolution, Xgl, AppArmor, Yast, iFolder, Gnome, KDE, SAMBA, and the kernel itself, and I'm sure other projects I'm not aware of) Despite the complaining from RedHat they deserve some respect.
With all that, it will it takes time to build momentum. Without a doubt the momentum for Linux from Novell is building, investors are simply upset that Novell is not there yet. The fact that Novell is number one in China is a signficant accomplishment that will result in revenue in the future.
Yes, it's about time. Two years ago Sun tried this, then RedHat tried it and from what I can tell both quit. Novell deserves credit for getting it done.
Novell and Red Hat are also founding members of Open Invension Network. I'm not sure about Red Hat but I know that Novell has a slew of valuable patents that would help prevent lawsuits.
This is really neat. As more companies become members of the network, the stronger open source will be - legally. This is worst case scenario for companies like Microsoft. For example, would Microsoft shy away from launching a patent infringement battle against red-hat? I don't think they would flinch. But would they launch the same battle against the combined patent portfolio of IBM/Sony/Phyllips/Novell/Red-Hat?
Nonsense. The long term status for Novell is great. They are not in the red nor have they been for some time. Yes, NetWare could be in the toilet, but they have known that for quite some time now - Duh, that is why they went to Linux. That is one reason they are relevant for the long term.
It is the short term that the investors are concerned about. Novell's total revenue has remained steady but not growing as everyone thought it should and the investors are getting ansy.
Common everyone, keep it in perspective. Yes it is sad that they have to layoff people and they probably won't be able to contribute as much to open source as they have recently. This does not mean Novell is dead or that others will be "eating their lunch", or that their commitment to OSS has changed. They still make more money than they spend. They still have a sizable chunck of change in the bank that is not diminishing. That bank account is the primary reason their long term status is just fine.
Having a mission statement does not imply unity. I would say the OSDL is an authority in Linux, they have a mission statement to: OSDL Mission statement
What concerns me with BSD (not particularly FreeBSD) is that each distro forks the kernel and maintains only that fork. This is not unity.
What Theo points out as a drawback to Linux is what I see as it's greatest strength. Even though "companies push their own agendas and end up squabbling", they don't fork their own kernel and say 'screw you Linus! I'll go maintain my own kernel with my own nifty thing'.
I know little about the kernel details and differences between BSD and Linux. I run my gnome and I'm happy. If it were BSD underneath I don't think I'd care.
However, the difference with linux comes from the unified community behind it: Thousands of distros, hundreds of companies, one kernel.
Maybe its just my perseption but I don't see the same kind of unity from BSD. The true wonder of Linux is not necessarily it's technology, but it's ability corral the efforts of thousands into one goal.
I too own an office license that I run under crossover, so this makes me mad. If MS is deliberately breaking office updates from honest people running on other OS's they will lose in court. Go get 'em codeweavers!
There exists a technical committee at OASIS to make the OpenOffice format a standard (OASIS OpenOffice). How does this differ if it's a ISO standard as well?
I refuse to buy a handheld/laptop/desktop with MS software - such is my hate. Nonetheless, this is a great thing:
- They are going about it the right way (IETF rfc as an open standard, open source system)
- They have a lot of weight to actually make it happen
- This is something that should have been done a long time ago.
If they modified things from other proposals, I don't care. This is just something that simply has to happen!
So despite coming from microsoft, this is great news.
As far as Allocating resources for more desktop development, they already have. They formed a group in india specifically to forward Linux desktop developement.
Here is the article I where I read it: indiatimes.com. Here is a blerb, "This probably could be the first single largest Linux development centre of any
MNC in India"
As far as a samba server, NetWare 6 also bundles what they call Native File Access Pack. It makes your server appear as a Windows server(CIFS) to windows clients, Mac(AppleTalk) to Mac client or Unix(NFS) to Unix clients. It's also a free download for NetWare 5.
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27311, 00.asp explains that the icons are only hidden and the and the default views in the start menu are now more configurable.
You can still run IE - the executibles and dll's are all there. That is why the rest of the 9 states didn't jump for joy and say 'good microsoft... now play dead!'
Novell has a JDBC driver for LDAP. It maps SQL statements to LDAP(At least those it can. Those it can't map directly to LDAP it does it's own joining of the data). Its a free download available at developer.novell.com/ndk/ldapjdbc.htm Its also 'works with LDAP 2000' certified. (From the OpenGroup) This means it should work with any LDAP compliant directory.
Its useful if you have normal reporting tools that use JDBC drivers. For example StarOffice can import data from JDBC drivers with a nice GUI - This way you don't have to know about the LDAP syntaxes or anything about LDAP except that its a Data Base.
They also have an ODBC driver that only works with eDirectory(NDS). Hope that helps.
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I can imagine future forcasts, "Cloudy with a 50% chance of homicide". I would imagine 0% chance of homicide in a blizzard or hurricane, so it kinda makes sense. Kinda.
IMHO, In five years your skills will be antiquated. While your skills are in demand, demand 4-8 hours a week to keep up on new stuff.
Very similar to Open suse's webpage called Idea Pool: http://idea.opensuse.org/. Last June opensuse and Novell stopped their normal work for a week to work on their favorite ideas from the idea pool. I hope they do it again as My idea was not selected :(.
Those numbers are 50 Million a quarter from linux. 1 billion a year total. So Novell makes about 200 million a year on Linux related products.
As a Novell employee I disagree on all of your arguments but one - the kde versus gnome - I wish we could pick one but that ain't happening.
Yast and Redcarpet: Integrating redcarpet into yast was the right way to go. Since redcarpet (from Ximian) and Yast (from Suse) were able to collaborate and come out with a better solution shows that they have vision and execute the vision.
AppArmor vs SeLinux: see security wars Summary: Novell buys a best of breed security solution, then gives it to the community. RedHat wines: "In my opinion, Novell wants to split the market...".
Xgl vs Xegl: I don't see any confusion here, I think maybe you mean aiglx Xegl is a completely new Xserver. So to compare the three projects: Xegl = really hard, Xgl = hard, aiglx = easy.
I think the confusion around this comes from redHat. Novell chose Xgl, RedHat chose aiglx, Novell gets the credit, Redhat complains. Xegl is still a ways off.
Novell is putting significant investment into open source software (OpenOffice, Hula, Evolution, Xgl, AppArmor, Yast, iFolder, Gnome, KDE, SAMBA, and the kernel itself, and I'm sure other projects I'm not aware of) Despite the complaining from RedHat they deserve some respect.
With all that, it will it takes time to build momentum. Without a doubt the momentum for Linux from Novell is building, investors are simply upset that Novell is not there yet. The fact that Novell is number one in China is a signficant accomplishment that will result in revenue in the future.
Yes, it's about time. Two years ago Sun tried this, then RedHat tried it and from what I can tell both quit. Novell deserves credit for getting it done.
Novell and Red Hat are also founding members of Open Invension Network. I'm not sure about Red Hat but I know that Novell has a slew of valuable patents that would help prevent lawsuits. This is really neat. As more companies become members of the network, the stronger open source will be - legally. This is worst case scenario for companies like Microsoft. For example, would Microsoft shy away from launching a patent infringement battle against red-hat? I don't think they would flinch. But would they launch the same battle against the combined patent portfolio of IBM/Sony/Phyllips/Novell/Red-Hat?
Nonsense. The long term status for Novell is great. They are not in the red nor have they been for some time. Yes, NetWare could be in the toilet, but they have known that for quite some time now - Duh, that is why they went to Linux. That is one reason they are relevant for the long term.
It is the short term that the investors are concerned about. Novell's total revenue has remained steady but not growing as everyone thought it should and the investors are getting ansy.
Common everyone, keep it in perspective. Yes it is sad that they have to layoff people and they probably won't be able to contribute as much to open source as they have recently. This does not mean Novell is dead or that others will be "eating their lunch", or that their commitment to OSS has changed. They still make more money than they spend. They still have a sizable chunck of change in the bank that is not diminishing. That bank account is the primary reason their long term status is just fine.
Having a mission statement does not imply unity. I would say the OSDL is an authority in Linux, they have a mission statement to: OSDL Mission statement
What concerns me with BSD (not particularly FreeBSD) is that each distro forks the kernel and maintains only that fork. This is not unity.
What Theo points out as a drawback to Linux is what I see as it's greatest strength. Even though "companies push their own agendas and end up squabbling", they don't fork their own kernel and say 'screw you Linus! I'll go maintain my own kernel with my own nifty thing'.
I know little about the kernel details and differences between BSD and Linux. I run my gnome and I'm happy. If it were BSD underneath I don't think I'd care.
However, the difference with linux comes from the unified community behind it: Thousands of distros, hundreds of companies, one kernel.
Maybe its just my perseption but I don't see the same kind of unity from BSD. The true wonder of Linux is not necessarily it's technology, but it's ability corral the efforts of thousands into one goal.
Maemo will need a name for their blog/planet. How about Maemo-gram
Caldera sued Microsoft because they deliberately broke win 3.1 on drDos. Here is an old article on it
I too own an office license that I run under crossover, so this makes me mad. If MS is deliberately breaking office updates from honest people running on other OS's they will lose in court. Go get 'em codeweavers!
I've been looking to buy one and I found this page with froogle: http://conics.net/shp/pda/zaurus-sl-c700/index.htm l
Articles I've read say that it will be released in November. But it does sound nice :)
Here are some of the articles:
vnunet
tectonic
linuxelectrons
There exists a technical committee at OASIS to make the OpenOffice format a standard (OASIS OpenOffice). How does this differ if it's a ISO standard as well?
That would be Despite. Just had to correct myself before someone else does.
I refuse to buy a handheld/laptop/desktop with MS software - such is my hate. Nonetheless, this is a great thing:
- They are going about it the right way (IETF rfc as an open standard, open source system)
- They have a lot of weight to actually make it happen
- This is something that should have been done a long time ago.
If they modified things from other proposals, I don't care. This is just something that simply has to happen!
So despite coming from microsoft, this is great news.
We have a 20,000 processor super computer! Each processor is housed in a cubicle and connected with a 1gig ethernet. Sorry, I win.
Good point. So if Novell where sueing IBM then that would be considered competition!
As far as Allocating resources for more desktop development, they already have. They formed a group in india specifically to forward Linux desktop developement.
Here is the article I where I read it: indiatimes.com. Here is a blerb, "This probably could be the first single largest Linux development centre of any MNC in India"
- The Executive Commitee for Novell looks entirely different than it did when it put MS as enemy #1.
- More than half of management underneath the executive committe has changed since then.
In other words 'These people' who where 'scarily clueless' are gone. I guess these 'suits' went to SCO for employment.
As far as a samba server, NetWare 6 also bundles what they call Native File Access Pack. It makes your server appear as a Windows server(CIFS) to windows clients, Mac(AppleTalk) to Mac client or Unix(NFS) to Unix clients. It's also a free download for NetWare 5.
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27311, 00.asp explains that the icons are only hidden and the and the default views in the start menu are now more configurable.
You can still run IE - the executibles and dll's are all there. That is why the rest of the 9 states didn't jump for joy and say 'good microsoft... now play dead!'
Also check out the Java API for LDAP. It has been under very active development by the IETF community, and should be made into an RFC soon.
You can download Novell's implementation at developer.novell.com/ndk/jldap.htm And you can get the source code from OpenLDAP.org
Novell has a JDBC driver for LDAP. It maps SQL statements to LDAP(At least those it can. Those it can't map directly to LDAP it does it's own joining of the data). Its a free download available at developer.novell.com/ndk/ldapjdbc.htm Its also 'works with LDAP 2000' certified. (From the OpenGroup) This means it should work with any LDAP compliant directory. Its useful if you have normal reporting tools that use JDBC drivers. For example StarOffice can import data from JDBC drivers with a nice GUI - This way you don't have to know about the LDAP syntaxes or anything about LDAP except that its a Data Base. They also have an ODBC driver that only works with eDirectory(NDS). Hope that helps.