The Sikh Geek

Novell’s first quarter results for 2007 have been released and they show revenues are down from the previous year by 5% but Linux revenues for the quarter were $15 million, up 46% and invoicing was $91 million, up 659% year-over-year.

Novell has recently released its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v10 and is a supported platform by iQubed and also by Microsoft under their recent agreement. I’ve always preferred SUSE Linux over Redhat in the commercial Linux arena. The ease of management of SUSE Linux is way beyond Redhat’s, as many tasks can be completed via YAST (the GUI management interface). Also, SUSE was the first to move to the 2.6 Kernel and add support for Xen (virtualisation hypervisor technology). Microsoft and Novell are working on supporting each other’s OS on their respective virtualisation solutions. If you want a sneak preview of this work check out this post on Microsoft’s Port 25 Blog. Exciting stuff and I would bet part of my business on this strategy paying off! It’s something that I’m keen to have as part of my business strategy.