“This service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 has something for almost everyone – customers, partners and developers,” says Holger Dyroff, vice president of outbound product management for SUSE Linux Enterprise at Novell. “The benefits of Linux in the enterprise are becoming well known, and Novell’s focus is on continuing to simplify the customer’s experience, always with an eye to reducing costs. Reliability, security and interoperability don’t need to break the bank. That’s the ongoing value Novell provides with SUSE Linux Enterprise.”
Novell also unveiled the Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise, designed to help customers better manage their SUSE Linux Enterprise software updates.

The Subscription Management Tool (SMT) for SUSE Linux Enterprise aims to help customers manage their SUSE Linux Enterprise software updates while maintaining corporate firewall policy and regulatory compliance requirements. SMT is a package proxy system that is integrated with the Novell Customer Center and provides Novell Customer Center capabilities locally at the customer site. It provides, for example, a repository and registration target that is synchronized with the Novell Customer Center, thus maintaining all the capabilities of the Novell Customer Center while allowing a more secure centralized deployment.

SMT also allows customers to distribute updates for all SUSE Linux Enterprise devices (server, desktop or point-of-service terminal) that are running Service Pack 2 or subsequent releases. By downloading these updates only once and distributing them throughout the enterprise, Novell says, customers can set more restrictive firewall policies and, where applicable, avoid significant network usage stemming from repeated downloads of the same updates by each device. SMT is fully supported and available as a download to customers with an active SUSE Linux Enterprise product subscription.

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Specifically, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 enhancements are primarily focused in six areas:

• Virtualization
• Laptop and Desktop improvements
• Encryption and Security
• Cluster & Storage Enhancements
• Networking & IPv6 Enablement
• Servicability

“Of course, we don’t normally make a big deal about the release of a minor version, but for this update we’ve decided to go wild and issue a pair of blogs,” the company said. “In this one we will talk about the new features and capabilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. In the other we will highlight something that we are proud of and applies to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, our software maintenance and lifecycle policies.”

Sounds like Red Hat is pretty serious. Is this the version that truly takes the competition to task?

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Customers who allow user-provided code to run in an authenticated context, such as within Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server, should review this advisory. Hosting providers may be at increased risk from this elevation of privilege vulnerability.

Currently, Microsoft is not aware of any attacks attempting to exploit the potential vulnerability. Upon completion of this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to protect our customers, which may include providing a solution through a service pack, our monthly security update release process, or an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs.

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“Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition is built for business,” says Jane Silber, COO of Canonical Ltd. “This release brings together significant feature and stability improvements to a free and open platform. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is at the center of a growing ecosystem of applications that serve businesses of all sizes extremely well. We look forward to seeing its adoption grow across the five years we will support it.”

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Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition adds new features that aim to enhance the performance, stability and security of this fully supported general platform, according to Canonical. The LTS release sees further expansion of the commercial ecosystem of software, hardware and services vendors supporting Ubuntu Server.

The extended maintenance period meets demand from business users to deploy Ubuntu widely over a period of years, the company said. It also positions Ubuntu Server as a platform on which hardware and software vendors can build commercial solutions. A wide range of vendors have declared support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, and more are currently testing and certifying the release.

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The details emerged this week at MySQL’s annual user conference in Santa Clara, Calif., where Sun also revealed it will delay the release of MySQL 5.1, the latest upgrade, until June to fix bugs.

The news has caused an uproar in open source circles. What say you? Does long-time MySQL contributor Jeremy Cole have a point when he says this is leading MySQL “even further down the path of getting the RHEL/Fedora model backward.”

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Suse Linux Enterprise 11 will be designed to form the heart of the modern IT organization, Novell said, to provide a foundation for mission-critical workloads across the enterprise by leveraging new technologies for server virtualization, consolidation and appliances, as well as innovative client computing breakthroughs.

Novell is promising customers a lot with this new release: greater flexibility, efficiency and agility, regardless of whether they deploy Suse Linux Enterprise directly on the hardware or as a virtual machine guest.

Listen in to what Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions for Novell, said about Suse Linux:

“The tremendous adoption of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 in the market has brought the benefits of enterprise Linux to thousands of organizations around the world. We have listened closely to our customers, to our partners and to our colleagues in the open source community as we designed the next generation of Linux operating systems — Suse Linux Enterprise 11. This release will redefine the standard for mission-critical, interoperable enterprise computing. SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will provide organizations with an agile, open, cost-effective infrastructure.”

Is this Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise 11 the release that will break Red Hat’s back, with a little help from Microsoft? Or is this just another bragging session?

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There’s talk that it’s not much different from a hosted SQL Server at your ISP. It’s an issue of control, I suppose. Some people get spooked by the notion of transitioning to a fully hosted SQL solution. The discussion started at Stephen Wynkoop’s site, but let’s continue it here.

Is SQL Server in a fully hosted form a good idea, or would it cause issues no one has yet to mention?

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Here’s an interesting admission — followed by a reassurance — from Zend’s co-founder, Andi Gutmans, in InformationWeek:

Previously, PHP “didn’t run as well as it should on Windows,” said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations. When they deployed their Windows-based applications to production, their performance was disappointing and they tended to develop on Windows and deploy under Unix or Linux. Now the three platforms should be available on a more equal footing, he said.

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