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451 CAOS Links – 2007.12.12
Raven Zachary, December 12, 2007 @ 8:06 pm ETNovell to release delayed earnings tomorrow. Centric CRM changes name to Concursive. Untangle surpasses 100,000 users. (and more)
Novell Will Release Fourth Fiscal Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2007 Earnings on December 13, 2007, Novell (Press Release)
Centric CRM Changes Name to Concursive Corporation to Reflect Shift to Collaborative, Community-Oriented CRM, Concursive (Press Release)
Untangle Surpasses 100,000 Users, Untangle (Press Release)
OpenLogic Announces Plans for Global Open Source Census, OpenLogic (Press Release)
NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment Ready for Action; General Availability Marks Latest Milestone from NetBeans Community, Sun Microsystems (Press Release)
JBoss Founder Marc Fleury Joins Appcelerator Board of Advisors, Appcelerator (Press Release)
SWsoft to Change its Name to Parallels, Introduces Vision to Deliver “Optimized Computing” Through Virtualization and Automation, Parallels (Press Release)
SpringSource Announces Partnership With Hyperic, Hyperic / SpringSource (Press Release)
QNX Releases Source Code for New Networking Stack, QNX Software Systems (Press Release)
Jaspersoft Launches iReport for the NetBeans 6.0 IDE, JasperSoft (Press Release)
Open Solutions Alliance Announces Key Findings from 2007 Customer Forum Series, Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) (Press Release)
JumpBox Ships Four New Virtual Appliances, Sends Seven More to Beta-Testing, JumpBox (Press Release)
One year on, the Java community continues to build, Linux.com, Bruce Byfield (Article)
Open Enterprise Interview: Dominic Sartorio, ComputerWorld UK, Glyn Moody (Article)
Open source claims seat at the corporate table in ’08, Network World, John Fontana (Article)
I join the advisory of Appcelerator, Maison Fleury, Marc Fleury (Blog)
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Novell will release its figures later today, but despite the SEC’s apathy, people need to be aware of this:
Matt Asay: “Well, I doubt, I tend… I don’t know who reported on that, but I saw something where they say, you know, this probably isn’t due to Novell massaging its numbers around Linux, which is what Dana Blakenhorn at ZDNet had claimed, I mean, I can tell you absolutely for a verifiable fact for that Novell does do that, but then again everybody does that. So… I’ve.. I’ve got the sales guys at Novell telling me that, that they do this, but it just doesn’t matter, I… I suspect that this is a tech… like a technicality that Novell has run afoul of and not a big deal, but maybe I’ll.. maybe we’ll be wrong, maybe I’ll be wrong, we should see.”
Ashlee Vance: “So you think people fudge the shipping numbers or they’re fudging revenue numbers, I mean, reve..?”
Matt Asay: “No…no… no… no not… just saying that they are putting it into different buckets. Ummm…like, some of that Linux revenue that Novell reports, based on what I’ve heard from Linux inside the company, is not Linux revenue by… by.., what are… reasonably prudently outside observer and what they would say.”
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/open_season_seven/
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