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A request from a bank to look at a switch from Windows to Linux has led to UK-based IT specialist Patrick Fitzgerald and his colleagues at British firm i-Layer developing a detailed method for an institution to make the transition.

Germany-based SUSE Linux has announced a container as a service platform that it hopes to release as a public beta in April next year, before the first customer version comes out in July the same year.

Software-defined networking has come into vogue because of the growth of the cloud and is one of the waves of the future, according to Olaf Kirch, vice-president of R&D at SUSE Linux.

A major upgrade to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was released on Tuesday in the shape of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Service Pack 2.

SUSE Linux has been acquired thrice in its history. Now the company, a Nuremberg-based independent business unit of the British mainframe group Micro Focus, has gone to the other side of the tracks, announcing that it will be making its first ever acquisition.

As the company that holds number two rank among open source outfits, SUSE Linux isn't normally the kind of entity that tends to indulge in name calling.

The number of users of openSUSE, the community GNU/Linux distribution supported by the Germany SUSE Linux company, has grown, with an average of 400,000 DVD images being downloaded each month.

The man who in every sense sits at the nerve centre of SUSE Linux has no airs about him. At 38, Vojtěch Pavlík is disarmingly frank and often seems a bit embarrassed to talk about his achievements, which are many and varied.

Two-and-a-half years after it began life as an independent unit, SUSE Linux is back with its second annual convention, much bigger than the first, but still retaining the same mix of formal and informal.

IBM's latest PowerLinux server is aimed at Big Data and other analytics applications.

A new range of cloud clients from Dell's Wyse business promises a balance of performance, energy efficiency and manageability.

Novell ceased to exist as a public entity at the end of trading in the US on Wednesday as the sale of the company to Attachmate Corporation was closed.