Looking ahead to LinuxWorld

LinuxWorld San Francisco is fast approaching. Every year it is an opportunity for the community to reflect on recent achievements and challenges for the future. Last year, Novell used LinuxWorld as our launch vehicle for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and our campaign emphasizing “Your Linux is Ready.” All of Novell’s recent success in terms of market growth and ecosystem growth is anchored on the great distribution that we announced last year.

With LinuxWorld only one week away, I wanted to reflect on our most recent Linux announcement – SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – released last month.

Rolling thunder for virtualization

A continuing focus for Novell has been the importance of an open source solution for virtualization. With SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, Novell was first to market with Xen based virtualization packaged with Linux. As noted on numerous occasions (see here and here), Novell has been adding partners, guests, performance optimizations, and management with regularity.

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