Novell Attacks SMB Market with Small Business Suite
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Having a trimmed down version of an operating system that is targeted at small- and mid-sized businesses is not a new idea. SMB shops have different needs and skill sets--particularly very small customers--than big midrange shops or larger enterprise shops. One size has never fitted all--this was the case with NetWare, with Windows, with Unix, and with Linux. NetWare was an SMB platform from the get-go, and Unix vendors never seemed to understand the SMB market at all. But Microsoft and Linux distros like Novell have SMB in their blood. They get it. READ MORE >

Dell Gets First Jump on Potomac/Cranford Xeon MPs
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

If you are the fastest growing server maker in the world, if you don't bash Itanium, and if you don't sell rival Opteron processors, then apparently you do get to pre-announce the latest Xeon MP server processors from Intel. And that is precisely what Dell did last week along with top executives from Intel and database maker Oracle, arguably two of the three most important partners that Dell has in the enterprise server space. READ MORE >

Fujitsu-Siemens Readies Unnamed Itanium Server
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The word on the street is that all of the bigwigs from Fujitsu will be coming to San Francisco for a big event on April 5, and the building consensus is that this may be when the Fujitsu-Siemens partnership (which includes German server maker Siemens) will launch its as-yet unnamed Itanium-based enterprise server, which will support both Linux and Windows and will scale up to 32 processors. READ MORE >

Altiris, BMC Bolster Management Wares with Acquisitions
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Systems and application management software vendor Altiris has acquired Pedestal Software for $65 million in cash. By doing so, Altiris can now offer security management software on top of the substantial portfolio of systems management tools it offers directly and resells through Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others. And right after that, BMC Software last week acquired OpenNetwork. READ MORE >

   But Wait, There's More

Intel Debuts 64-Bit Xeon MP Processors Today . . . Novell Launches ZENworks 7 Suite, Buys Tally Systems for Management Tools . . . Novell Opens Open Source Tech Center in Utah . . . OpenLogic Secures $4 Million in Venture Capital . . . Ticketmaster Picks Red Hat, StrongMail Combo for Email . . . O'Reilly to Distribute Mandrakesoft's Desktop Linuxes . . . READ MORE >

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