News from the front

[Brian Densmore]

Just some interesting things I noticed.

IBM is preloading Linux now when you purchase a box:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040324S0007

(not exactly new)
Novell has ported Groupwise to Linux, here's the beta:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2004/01/pr04009.html

Novell in the P2P business:
http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?ifolder
(well sort of, it's open source too)

Linux on desktops last year grew 44% that's *tens of millions*
of desktops.

HP is pre-installing SuSe on laptops.

Novell really seems to be running full-tilt Linux. I hope it
works for them. I may have to take a new look at SuSE. Maybe get 
one of those SuSE-Knoppix clones.

Brian