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Done deal? Hardly. Dell’s $24.4 billion deal to go private apparently faces pushback from at least four major shareholders, Reuters reported. And don’t forget: A special Dell committee is managing a 45-day “go-shop” period, during which the committee is actively soliciting alternative bids. So who will wind up owning Dell, and how will the current variables impact partners and the PC maker?

Eucalyptus, provider of open source software for private clouds, has confirmed two executive departures. CEO Marten Mickos downplayed the changes to GigaOm, but Talkin' Cloud has heard about other employee departures in recent months.

Did anybody else notice Novell BrainShare 2013 occurred last week in Salt Lake City? It was a prime opportunity to promote Novell’s progress under Attachmate’s ownership. Plus, SUSE Linux (Novell’s sister business) could have published some updated business milestones of its own. Did Novell and SUSE deliver? Here’s the scorecard.

Morphlabs, which as built itself up as a provider of OpenStack products designed for service providers and enterprises, has launched a modular, OpenStack-based public cloud platform. Designed for cloud services providers, mCloud Osmium enables them to quickly implement highly-scalable public clouds without the need for large amounts of research, development or capital investments.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has introduced technical account management (TAM) services for cloud computing, virtualization and storage. The consulting offerings are highly important as the open source company attempts to compete more aggressively against VMware (NYSE: VMW) and EMC (NYSE: EMC), in particular.

Chromebooks quietly are making some noticeable inroads, with Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) recently joining Acer, Samsung and Lenovo as leading PC makers with a toe or two in on Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome OS-based cloud notebooks. Acer president Jim Wong even recently said that about 10 percent of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s U.S. notebook shipments since November were Chromebooks—a performance he believes is repeatable and can be extended to other markets.

Canonical’s promise to create an Ubuntu smartphone market will become a reality in October 2013. That’s when the first Ubuntu smartphones will arrive, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth said this week. Now here’s the big twist: For developers, the smartphone operating system is optimized for Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus — perhaps suggesting that Samsung plans to back the mobile open source operating system. Still, I remain skeptical. Here’s why.

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) has invested in Piston Cloud Computing, which develops an OpenStack distribution for private enterprise clouds. The investment comes only a few weeks after Cisco pumped money into Parallels, which develops cloud automation software. Is Cisco hedging its cloud bets? Sort of.

Piston Cloud Computing, which promotes an OpenStack distribution to enterprise customers, has raised $8 million in series B funding from Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures join Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures as principal investors. The big question: Is a channel program on the way?

Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) board of directors will reportedly meet this evening (Monday, Feb. 4) to vote on a leverage buyout that may take the company private, Bloomberg reported. Indeed, Silver Lake Management, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Michael Dell are expected to to be among Dell’s key investors. Among the potential concerns for channel partners: Will Microsoft’s potential stake in Dell allow the software giant to dictate the types of software Dell offers to mobile, desktop, server and cloud partners?

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has officially launched the HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook, joining Acer, Samsung and Lenovo as core PC makers that now back Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) ChromeOS-based cloud notebooks. Is the Chromebook revolution quietly accelerating within the shadow of Microsoft‘s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8 push? Hmmm…

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) has joined Hewlett-Packard‘s (NYSE: HPQ) HP Enterprise Services Technology Alliance program. The move essentially confirms that HP is building a range of on-premises and cloud services atop Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and JBoss middleware software.

The OUYA (a $99 game console based on Google Android) could take the best of the mobile gaming model and move it into U.S. living rooms. Can traditional business software developers learn from this strategy? Absolutely yes. Here's why.

Boosting OpenStack, Rackspace has partnered with AMD, Dell, EMC, HP, Arista Networks, Brocade, Hortonworks, NetApp and CommVault to launch open reference architectures that were designed to make it easier for enterprises to deploy large-scale private clouds.

Apple (NADAQ: AAPL) has blocked a Java 7 plugin to protect Mac OS X 10.6 and up users. Alas, Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Java software has been plagued by bugs in recent weeks. I wonder: Would the late Steve Jobs have made this move — especially when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison ranked among Jobs’ closes friends? Hmmm…

Kaspersky Lab continues to develop a cyber secure operating system project. It’s designed to protect utilities, nuclear reactors, transportation systems and other mission-critical infrastructure from hackers, malware and state sponsored cyber warfare. So what’s the latest? CEO Eugene Kaspersky offered our editors an update during the Kaspersky Cyber Security Summit in New York. Here’s a recap.

Google Chromebooks are generating more and more buzz. Acer, Lenovo and Samsung already offer the low-cost, cloud-centric notebooks. And Hewlett-Packard could join the Chromebook party soon. So why might Chrome OS devices succeed where Linux netbooks ultimately failed? Here are five extremely clear reasons.

In an age where Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the dominant tech company and proprietary smartphones and tablets account for an ever-growing segment of the market, it can be easy to forget that not all hardware is built on closed standards. Opengear, however, reminded the channel recently that open hardware platforms can be profitable as well with the announcement of two significant achievements in the remote-management market.

Ceph, the open source distributed file system that is playing an increasingly important role in the world of Big Data despite its young age, took another step into the cloud with the announcement of the general availability of the DreamObjects cloud storage system from DreamHost. The update follows a beta version of the service that launched last September, but brings with it expanded offerings and incentives.

From Internet Explorer (IE) to Firefox to Google Chrome, there’s no shortage of Web browsers to choose from these days–a luxury that can be easy to take for granted for those who have forgotten what things were a number of years ago, after Netscape collapsed and IE was the only game in town. But GNOME, the open source development community, thinks it can offer a better browser than these bigger-name alternatives in the form of Web, formerly known as Epiphany. Is it right?