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Jeff Jaffe – Novell CTO Leaving

A few days after the news from Zonker, we get the news that Jeff Jaffe, Novells CTO, is also leaving the company for new ventures in life after 4 years.
What does this mean to the company? What really is going on at Novell?
Here’s some of the postings from Jeff’s Blog:
I hope they can make it… I’m rooting for Novell, but things haven’t been [ continue reading... ]

Setting Password Complexity SLES 11

Recently I got a copy of SLES 11, that I decided to setup to compare against the RHEL I’m running in the enterprise space (for a possible migration path).
One of the first things I checked up on, was local password complexity to adhere within Sarbanes–Oxley (yes.. the biggest pain in the world). In my RHEL implementations I’ve set system-auth to use pam_cracklib.so and use [ continue reading... ]

Red Hat (RHT) Profits Soar, is Novell (NOVL) Next?

With a global recession looming over the heads of many corporations, they are becoming creative to cut costs in all aspects of business including the “overhead cost” of IT.
It seems with Red Hat’s latest numbers released today, that companies are indeed switching from higher cost Unix systems, and Windows systems to Linux distributions. The following quote was taken from Yahoo Associated Press:
“In this budget-constrained [ continue reading... ]