Michael Dolan Dot Com

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

ComputerWorld: “Novell’s Linux business climbs since its deal with Microsoft”

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9039081&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8

“The affect on sales year over year, for Novell’s first three quarters of our fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31 — our Linux business was up 243%,” said Justin Steinman, director of marketing at Novell, who, along with executives from both companies, spoke at a program hosted by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council.

Oddly this comes out just the day after Red Hat’s earnings which  seem to have impressed investors:

Shares of Red Hat Inc. rose more than 4% Wednesday, one day after the company reported that its second-quarter profit rose 59%, and sales slightly beat Wall Street analysts’

The bottom line conclusion I see in these datapoints is Linux is flying off the shelves (or is that off the wires with downloads…) and growing quite well no matter what other companies try to do to impede its growth. The state of Linux is strong.