Novell today announced the availability of SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, the latest version of Novell’s enterprise-class, open source real-time operating system for running high-performance, time-sensitive, mission-critical applications. With SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10, financial organizations can respond more rapidly to changing markets and new information, get greater application reliability and predictability, and identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks. This will allow them to increase revenue opportunities and improve service to their customers, even while reducing computing infrastructure costs.

“In order to win in today’s increasingly competitive global markets, companies need to be able to respond quickly while delivering superior products and services,” said Roger Levy, senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions for Novell. “Companies that leverage technology such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 to improve responsiveness and availability of critical business services will be better able to compete and grow their own top-line revenues.”

With Novell’s real-time technology, customers can segment portions of their processors for high-priority mission-critical workloads, as well as ensure that other system processes and tasks do not interrupt them. That means these workloads deliver predictable performance in time-critical environments. Fully supported by Novell(R), SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10 is the only open source, enterprise-class real-time operating system available in the market today.

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The Linux Foundation is conducting an ambitious survey to find the penetration of Linux at various level. As per the survey the most numbers of desktops were at companies with employees between the range of 1-100, which may roughly be clubbed as SOHO or SME segment.

Windows has maintained its dominance with around 59 per cent of the users running Microsoft’s OS. Where as a whooping, and surprising, 39 per cent are now running Linux on their machines.

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Macedonia’s “Computer for Every Child” program has decided to go with Ubuntu as their operating system of choice for the NComputing workstations.

So far they have 7,000 of the estimated 20,000 workstations and they will be running version 7.04 of Edubuntu, a version that has been designed for classroom use.

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Dell Inc. the world’s second largest personal computer maker, announced that it would begin installing Linux operating system in its desktop computers tailored for enterprises users as of November 20, 2007.

The company said in a statement that it would install Novell SUSE Linux Desktop 10 in its enterprise users-oriented desktop computer models including Optiplex775 and Optiplex330.

After a 60-day-long free-of-charge telephone service, consumers of Dell’s Linux operating system-installed products in China are expected to enjoy related software technology support from Novell, one of the world’s largest distributors of the Linux operating systems, through annual fee payment.

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Not only is the gPC sold out online, it’s listed as “out of stock” in Wal-Mart stores from New York to Chicago to San Francisco.

Maybe open source has a future in the consumer world after all. A Linux-based PC that Wal-Mart began offering earlier this month for $199 is now listed as “Sold Out” on the retailer’s Web site.

The Everex TC2502 Green gPC is one of the first Linux-based desktop machines to be offered for sale by a major retailer. As such, it could be an indicator of open source software’s potential for success in the consumer market.

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