Novell revenue up as SUSE investment shows promise
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Networking and Linux vendor Novell reported a profit of $57.1 million for fiscal 2004 and said its Linux offerings are allowing the company to reach new customers.
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(InfoWorld) - Looking to bolster Linux in enterprise environments, Novell is offering its first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10, with capabilities for new quad-core processors. The company also announced Monday commercial availability plans for Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. Service Pack 1 supports quad-core processors in the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron product lines. Also featured are improvements in interoperability and system management, Novell said.Â  "What we further improved was the interoperability with Active Directory for both the server and the desktop," said Holger Dyroff, Novell vice president of Suse Linux Enterprise product management. High-availability storage infrastructure has been updated in the service pack and the platform's audit subsystem has been enriched, Novell said. The storage infrastructure features new versions of the open source Heartbeat high availability software and Oracle Cluster File System. The audit subsystem, which tracks transactions, now is complete. Support for Novell Open Enterprise Server 2, which merges NetWare and Linux, also is featured. Other improvements noted by Novell include: * Expanded OpenOffice.org support, with capabilities for Microsoft Office macros * An updated desktop user experience * A preview of desktop virtualization technology based on the Xen hypervisor * Advances in enterprise integration * Improved security Novell also detailed Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. This package includes drivers to enable unmodified Windows and Linux guest operating systems to run with near-native performance in virtual environments created with Xen in Suse Linux. Featured are paravirtualization and enterprise-level support for a range of fully virtualized workloads. Customers can run legacy applications on newer hardware. Paravirtualization bolsters communication with the hypervisor when a guest operating system is running on top of a host OS, thus improving performance. Featured in Virtual Machine Driver Pack are drivers for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003. Virtual Machine Driver Pack is due for general availability in July. Drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 will be released later this summer. A one-year subscription to Driver Pack costs $299 per physical server for as many as four virtual machines, or $699 per physical server for an unlimited number of virtual machines. Xen drivers for Suse Linux Enterprise Server are available now as part of Suse Linux Enterprise distribution.
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Waltham software vendor Novell Inc. credited its controversial deal with Microsoft Corp. for fueling interest in its Linux operating system software in its fiscal first quarter.
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This software company helps companies boost revenues and has caught the attention of IPO investors.
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The software maker said it got off to a fast start in the first quarter, with revenue up 27 percent from a year ago.
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Opinion: By embracing Linux and not forsaking NetWare with its Open Enterprise Server, Novell may have made its best move in years.
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It is not an area of business where you'd normally think of Novell providing the infrastructure. But business and retail transaction security is becoming a burgeoning business for the company that helped create the PC network.
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A new addition to an already successful drug promises good results for investors.
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Business software maker Siebel Systems Inc.  on Monday said third-quarter revenue would beat Wall Street estimates, driven by a rebound in licensing revenue, sending its shares up 14 percent.
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Growing market share in a growing market and shareholder-friendly use of money makes this company a great investment.
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The computer maker is expected to announce a deal to offer Novell's SuSE Linux factory-installed on new servers, CNET News.com has learned.
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Solution providers last week said they do not expect the sudden departure of Novell vice chairman Chris Stone, who engineered the company&#39;s aggressive Linux push, to slow its Linux initiative.
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Novell Inc. is reporting a big turnaround in its financial picture. The networking company is reporting a third-quarter profit of $23.4 million on sales of $304.6 million. A year ago, Novell reported a loss of $12.4 million on sales ...
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InfoWorld - Looking to bolster Linux in enterprise environments, Novell is offering its first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10, with capabilities for new quad-core processors. The company also announced Monday commercial availability plans for Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack.
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The software company's investments are showing some promise.
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Microsoft and Novell officials this week defended their controversial business agreement to collaborate and promote integration between Windows and SUSE Linux. But many of those at The Open Source Business Conference remained skeptical.
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Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is poised to launch the latest version of its SuSE Linux operating system, providing new features designed to appeal to both Linux neophytes and current users of the open-source desktop software.