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May 24, 2011 10:01 am

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2-3+4+7+0=10

This equation can be considered mathematically correct. But it also demonstrates how one can easily improve Interoperability between SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and Windows 7 Active Directory. 3+4=7With Windows 7, Microsoft not only changed their naming scheme once again (remember Windows 2000, 2008, XP and Vista?), they also added enhanced authentication mechanisms to Active […]

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February 11, 2011 3:55 pm

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Keep it … stable, secure and supportable … Maintenance!

Do you ever wonder what all this "maintenance" is about? Why is maintenance such a big deal? Why do we care about it? Why is it important? Do you ever wonder how we plan for and manage maintenance? Looking at how we maintain the Linux Kernel is a great example that shows how we […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 28, 2011 9:21 am

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Keep It Rolling …

Have you ever seen how they move big cheese loaves in the Netherlands? They roll them vertically! I don't want to deduct that they actually roll everything down there :-) However, there seems to be some affinity to not directly lift heavy weights, to not perform things in uncomfortable steps. Instead they try to resolve […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

August 10, 2010 8:20 am

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Data is Customers' Gold!

Data is Customers' Gold, the Operating System the Bank, the Filesystem the Vault. Discussing "Choice" last year, I already mentioned that we are proud to have certified all primary local filesystems in SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 (ext3, xfs, reiserfs) with major storage systems, and provide the best scaling choice for storage from desktop […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 22, 2010 12:00 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Three

In the first two blogs in this series of three we had discussed, how communities influence a product manager's life; and we looked at the concrete example of the Linux Kernel version for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1. And I wondered: What would you have done? You certainly would not have built your […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 21, 2010 10:37 am

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World – Part Two

When we discussed, how the interaction of customers, partners, and communities influences the product manager's decisions and his ownership of products, I promised to clarify this by sharing a recent example: For more than a decade the standard graphical environment on Linux and other UNIX(tm)-like systems, the X Window System (X11, X.org), did run […]

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By: Matthias G. Eckermann

January 20, 2010 5:42 pm

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Challenges of a Product Manager in the Open Source World

Welcome in 2010! This will be the year of... well, no. Not yet. Let me start with some contemplation. Others have already discussed the role of product management in the context of Open Source and community with respect to one concrete Open Source project, as Matt Asay did writing about Product management goes open source. […]

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October 1, 2009 11:11 am

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Choice is good …

Choice is good ... Visiting Portland, Oregon, for LinuxCon, you certainly don't want to miss Henry's Tavern, well known for its 100 beers on tap. Wait - 100 beers on tap!? That's too much for the one evening, you're there, whatever your capacity is, ... You can preselect from a travel guide, but you finally end up […]

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