The VAR Guy

It’s easy to understand why Bob Wiederhold sounds confident. The CEO of Transitive Corp. is promoting software that allows Linux-based x86 servers to run Sun/SPARC applications on the fly. Transitive’s partners include Intel and Apple Computer.

Certification pros, much like solutions providers, continue to race up the open source software stack. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), for instance, is introducing MySQL 5.0 certification exams at this week’s C3 Expo in New York.

All eyes are on Boston as Microsoft hosts TechEd June 11-16. Some pundits insist the software giant is losing its clout. But the TechEd crowd–more than 12,000 strong–suggests otherwise.

When Red Hat announces quarterly results on June 28, the news may confirm what solutions providers already know: Red Hat Linux is easily outselling Novell SuSE Linux in the market place.

When Microsoft purchased Great Plains in 2001, many Redmond watchers–including me–expected the company to make an instant splash in the CRM and ERP markets.

Hewlett-Packard has scored a small but strategic victory in the server market that highlights how Dell lost touch with some customers.

Novell is in trouble again, and its two-time savior Chris Stone is off running a different company.