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Wall Street firms increasingly are buying into Linux, but some still need convincing that open source licensing and support models won't make using the technology more trouble than its worth.

On the heels of Tuesday's successful VMware IPO, rumours are again circulating that Citrix and XenSource may be hatching an acquisition deal just as the server and desktop virtualization markets are red hot.

At Novell's annual BrainShare user conference, CEO and President Ron Hovsepian sat down with Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor to talk about the Novell-Microsoft interoperability agreement and how it's helping Novell attract customers with mixed operating system environments.

As Novell kicks off its annual user conference, customers are enthusiastic about their transitions from the legacy NetWare operating system to Linux. There's discord, however, among Novell users regarding the company's controversial technology pact with Microsoft.

Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft's offer of technical support for Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux.

Oracle's plans to buy JBoss were still only a rumor Monday morning, but Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison has already offered plenty of hints why the deal might make sense.

Despite ambitious plans, the server software vendor is still struggling to reinvent itself for the 21st century.

Novell took major restructuring steps this week by announcing the layoff of 600 workers, promoting an insider to serve as the company's new president and deciding to focus on three basic market segments, including Linux.

"Headlines like this...really drive me nuts," writes Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz in his most recent blog. He is referring to the Forbes Magazine headline on September 1: "Sun Micro Still A Potential Threat To Linux." Not so, Schwartz thunders, using his deliberately provocative lower case 'l': "Sun is not a threat to GNU/linux. Innovation is not a threat to GNU/linux. dTrace is not a threat to linux. Nor is Solaris 10, nor Janus." What is a threat, then? The answer, according to Schwartz anyway, is: Red Hat.

Google has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, putting the Internet search pioneer on its way to becoming a public company.

Recently, Peter Houston, director of server strategy for Microsoft, sized up the future of enterprise data centres as a "two horse race" between Microsoft and Linux, with Unix being more of an afterthought as a strategic platform.