Take a look: Dice, the tech jobs site, reports that it had 9,631 Linux job listings in August. While this is a big number, what’s truly eye-catching is the percentage growth since January: Linux job listing are up a robust 30 percent – three times the increase of overall tech job listings. (Since January, Dice job listings have grown by 10.2 percent, to a total of 96,548 tech jobs.)

Novell beat Wall Street's estimates with a solid third quarter, but the real story is in its continued Linux growth. Net revenue rose to $245 million from $237 million in 2007, but Novell's third-quarter loss quadrupled to $15.1 million from $3.7 million in 2007.

Novell cuts 25% of its workforce .

Senforce Technologies, a small Draper, Utah, company that makes software to protect laptops and other wireless devices from security threats, has been bought by Novell. The deal closed Monday. Financial terms weren't disclosed by Waltham, Mass.-based Novell, which was established 24 years ago in Provo, Utah, and still employs 1,600 people at its office building an hour south of Salt Lake City.

Open source hero Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.

Software developer's Provo operations to shed 200 jobs, offshoring positions to India
Novell is laying off 250 software development positions in the United States and offshoring the majority of these to its operations in Bangalore, India. The company announced the layoffs to its workers today.

According to a recent IDC report highlighted by ZDNet, Linux is booming. At just 9.4 percent of the overall server market in terms of revenue in 2007, Linux has now climbed to 13.4 percent of the overall server market, with Unix at 7.7 percent and Windows at 36.5 percent.

Additional information about potential causes of layoffs and an example of how Novell employees become drones for a paycheck, accepting nonsensical policies in the process

I want to address the recent layoffs that have taken place at Novell. As is very obvious by now, there have been layoffs at Novell, and some of them did hit contributors to the openSUSE community employed by Novell.