[ Thanks to James
Maguire for this link. ]
“From a distribution perspective, Markus Rex, senior
vice president and general manager of open platform solutions at
Novell, will be taking the LinuxCon stage to update the Linux
community on where he sees the future of the platform heading.
Novell has been pushing a message of workload management with Linux
as a core component, while software appliances have also been a big
push for Novell with its SUSE Appliance effort, which recently
celebrated its first anniversary.“One of the biggest shifts in the IT landscape over the past
year was the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. While Sun
had its own Unix operating system in Solaris, Oracle has long been
a Linux supporter and has its own Oracle Enterprise Linux
distribution. Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president for Linux and
virtualization engineering at Oracle, will be giving an update on
where Oracle is now taking Linux in the post Sun acquisition
era.”