items tagged with Novell
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-30 22:43:50
Has the Free Software Foundation, like many others, chosen the path of least resistance and decided to bend with the wind? A Reuters report about the forthcoming final draft of the GPLv3 would make it appear so.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-27 21:08:07
How much more do we know about the Microsoft-Novell deal now, after Novell posted some of the details of three agreements on the web on Saturday as part of a regular filing with the SEC? Precisely nothing that we did not know earlier.
Read More About Novell Documents Tell Us Nothing New...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-27 05:43:47
Details of the Novell and Microsoft deal are finally public, and though some details have been ***’d out, Novell sits finely balanced between the community, the GPLv3 and Microsoft and depends on all three for future success.
Read More About Novell’S Deal With Microsoft Made Mostly Public...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-05-24 09:12:06
All guns are blazing in the land of Linux: Novell and Microsoft’s patent pact is about to be made public as Novell rejects Microsoft’s Linux patent infringement allegations while Novell supports the EFF’s Patent Busting project – it’s full steam ahead!
Read More About Novell, Microsoft, Patents And The EFF...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-14 02:44:47
Vista isn't selling as well as expected. Hints that Linux infringes Microsoft's patents aren't working well as a protection racket. And the third revision of the General Public Licence is due to come into force soon.
Read More About First Steps In The Patent Protection Racket...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-07 21:50:40
With one stroke, Microsoft has reasserted its number one position as deal maker and decision maker in the computer industry, reminding all wannabes that they are just that - wannabes.
Read More About The Empire Strikes Back...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-05-07 03:49:12
The cynic in me is delighted to learn today that Michael Dell didn't exactly have stars in his eyes when he advanced his grand plan to load Ubuntu on some Dell PCs and laptops.
Read More About Dell To Join The Axis Of Evil...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2007-05-07 02:29:50
Dell will offer its corporate customers support and maintenance certificates for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). It will purchase these certificates from Microsoft, which in turn agreed to buy them from Novell as part of a deal struck last November.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-04-30 10:13:16
The uproar in the open-source community caused by proprietary poster-child Microsoft's deal with Linux provider Novell shows no sign of abating.
Read More About Inside The Microsoft-Novell Deal...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2007-04-23 08:48:09
Justin Steinman is Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux and Open Platform Solutions, spreading the SuSe Linux gospel and the benefits of the deal with Microsoft both at home in the US and abroad. On his current visit to Australia, I got the chance to ask him questions – some easy, some tough. Novell doubters and haters beware: Steinman says Novell has never had it so good, and it’s only getting better!
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-04-18 11:49:03
It was interesting to see the comments which Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols made about the Debian project recently. Interesting, because they resulted in a rejoinder from a Debian developer, Thaddeus Black - not a particularly prominent person in the project, not the leader. No, just one of the rank and file, he thought that Vaughan-Nichols' comments merited a response and submitted a very reasoned bit of prose.
Read More About Debian: Some People Just Don't Get It...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2007-04-12 18:48:24
The public beta of Microsoft's 'Viridian' Windows Server virtualisation product has been pushed back to the second half of 2007, showing Apple isn't the only company having to delay software releases.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-04-04 00:26:01
A little over five months has gone by since the Microsoft-Novell deal was signed but some details still remain unknown.
Read More About Miguel, Mono And Microsoft...
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2007-03-29 18:27:14
It's official. Dell will soon release a range of Linux desktops, paving the way for the open source operating system to enter the mainstream desktop market via the recently troubled but still dominant desktop and notebook PCs vendor.
Read More About Dell: Ready, Set, Go Linux Desktop...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-03-28 22:45:20
The GPL version 3 will take a few months more to come into effect. A March deadline has slipped and it is now looking like it may take until the final quarter of 2007 before the licence is formally ushered in.
Read More About New GNU Licence Delayed...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-03-22 04:11:26
Richard Stallman may not have been at Novell's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but with some help from his friend Bruce Perens he was determined to lodge his objections to Novell's controversial deal with Microsoft.
Read More About Open Source Stirs Up Trouble For Novell...
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-03-21 20:55:53
Every year, Novell holds its annual tradeshow, which it calls Brainshare, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year, the company has had a much smaller, but possibly more raucuous, companion, across the street.
Read More About Perens Continues To Fight The Good Fight...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-03-21 06:12:21
One of the headaches of introducing an open source solution to a business is the work that has to be done in making a solution fit-for-purpose once the software has been acquired. Novell is hoping to make that process slightly easier with a thin-client version of Suse Linux that comes with a tool third parties can use to create a finished, tailored system.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2007-03-15 18:01:42
A "sizeable number" of developers have jumped ship from Novell to Red Hat, according to Scott Crenshaw, the senior director for product management and marketing at Red Hat.
Read More About Novell Deal Yields Dividends - For Red Hat...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: ZDNet UK
2007-03-15 09:06:41
Novell has issued a joint press release with Microsoft, in which HSBC, a customer of joint technology from the two companies, claims that Windows has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux.
Read More About Novell Linked To 'Windows Cheaper Than Linux' Statement...
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