April 3, 2006 7:57 PM PDT

Novell CTO starts blogging

Jeffrey Jaffe, Novell's new chief technology officer, has become the latest Linux executive to try his hand at blogging.

Jaffe launched his blog Monday with a 2,700-word posting that derides Microsoft products as "bloatware," discusses the difficulties he faced years ago trying to drum up software company support for IBM's OS/2 operating system, and offers opinions on why things will be different for Linux and open-source software.

It's tough being a high-ranking Linux blogger, though. Martin Fink, head of HP's Linux operations, threw in the towel for his blog, and Red Hat's former CTO Michael Tiemann hasn't posted since June 2005.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.

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Tags:: Microsoft,; Novell Inc,; Red Hat Inc,; Intl Business Machines Corp

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