Crumbs
Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Tuesday 5 June 2007, 12:19 PM
Novell: all systems go
It's all systems go at Novell this week. Firstly, the Linux vendor (and Microsoft's apparent best-friend in a fledging relationship) names its new chief for Great Britain and Ireland. Jacqueline de Rojas was appointed yesterday as country manager covering both the UK and the Emerald Isle.
De Rojas has been around for a bit and is best known for spells at Computer Associates, Business Objects and Cartesis.
"Novell is leading the way in open source and helps customers to achieve mixed IT environments," said De Rojas, pretty much as soon as she got in the door.
It took Novell about one hour after De Rojas' appointment for the company to crow about its latest customer win.
Car manufacturer BMW is to use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Xen virtualisation software in its datacentres to try to cut hardware costs and simplify datacentre deployment, Novell said.
PreviousComments on this post
I hope people will not conclude that Suse Linux is superior to all other distros just because it has Microsoft's blessing through Novell.
BTW, we will soon learn about the rate of sales of Dell's PCs with Ubuntu preinstalled. I am curious; we at least know that a few have been sold.
