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Interfview with Novell's Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org

A good, fairly short interview with Novell's Michael Meeks who works on OpenOffice.org.

AMD/Tyan/SUSE Set LAN Server Throughput Record

  • biz.yahoo.com; By Nelson and Associates Benchmarking Laboratory (Posted by cjcox on May 5, 2005 3:21 PM EDT)
  • Groups: SUSE; Story Type: News Story
Benchmarked for 48 hrs and moving 1 petabit of data averaging 6.5Gbits/sec, setting a new record with just stock components.

Sun Presentation Outlines Plans for Opteron, SPARC, Solaris, Linux AND Windows!

  • sun.com; By Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Posted by cjcox on Nov 5, 2004 10:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups: Sun
This presentation (registration required, flash preferable) shows Sun's plans for their Opteron support as well as how Linux represents a transitional technology (for customers that have not realized Solaris is better) as they move to support enterprises with hardware capable of running Solaris and Windows. Anyone with doubts on where Sun stands should watch this presentation.

Sun Attacks Red Hat. SUSE Not Worth Considering.

  • The Register; By Ashlee Vance (Posted by cjcox on Jun 26, 2004 4:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Sun
Sun attacks Red Hat as being expensive and not fitting of the enterprise, while trying to promote the benefits of Open Source in the enterprise. Says they would attack SUSE if SUSE had any marketshare. Interesting, since Sun's Java Desktop is based on SUSE Linux.