The Microsoft-Apple-Oracle-EMC consortium, CPTN Holdings, is apparently still intent on acquiring 882 Novell patents, according to reports. – A consortium headed by Microsoft is continuing in its plans to buy nearly
900 Novell patents for $450 million, according to reports.
That consortium, CPTN Holdings LLC, includes Apple, Oracle and EMC, in
addition to Microsoft. That company exists in the United
States, having been registered Nov…
Novell has been acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion; the topic is hot bet of discussions in the technology sphere.
It will be at least a week until Novell customers begin to get a clearer idea of what will happen with their favorite products after Attachmate closes on its acquisition of the company. – Novells ZENworks PC management suite illustrates the unsettled times in which many Novell customers now find themselves. The company Nov. 11 released the latest version of the software, which offers businesses greater manageability and virtualization capabilities. Then, less than two weeks later, No…
UPDATED: Microsoft and a couple of its partners will acquire IP connected with WordPerfect as part of the overall deal. – In a mildly surprising turn of events, financially troubled
enterprise network and application software provider Novell said Nov.
22 that it has agreed to be acquired by Attachmate Corp. for $2.2
billion in cash.
The purchase price works out to $6.10 per share, a 28 percent premium on the clos…
Novell Vibe is the software maker’s next evolution of Novell Pulse, the real-time collaboration platform designed to be Google Wave for the enterprise. – Novell Nov. 9 launched Novell Vibe, a platform brand that
includes the software maker’s real-time Pulse collaboration platform and the
existing Novell Teaming suite to help corporate employees work better together.
Novell Pulse was built on the federation protocol that powered the now defunct
Go…
Yahoo, Novell, Sprint and Motorola are some of the tech companies that topped research firm Glass Lewis & Co.’s 2010 "Pay Dirt" report& for overpaying their executives relative to company performance. The report’s "Overpaid 25" lists companies whose "compensation programs and policies& have failed to effectively link executive pay with company performance." In other words, executives who earned millions while their units failed to perform, or their stock price dipped. "Glass Lewis believes that year-after-year underperformance warrants significant action in order to rectify the issues that are plaguing the company and contributing to its lackluster performance," reads the report. However, some of the "Overpaid 25" companies have appeared on that list in previous years. Although its revenue numbers continue to be robust, Oracle was cited by the report as a company whose executives receive particularly high compensation. Glass Lewis also included an "Underpaid 25" list, whose executives receive minimal compensation relative to their companies’ robust performances. Those executives included Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos. Overall, though, technology companies constituted a small percentage of both lists. – …
Novell reports that enterprise cloud computing adoption is accelerating much faster than suggested by previous research. – Novell, troubled by nagging financial issues and going through a change of
ownership, nonetheless has been making news.
At VMworld, the company unveiled its first cloud computing platform, Novell
Cloud Manager, one that a non-IT person can deploy by following
instructions and not having to wr…
Linux vendor Novell is releasing an optimized version of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server tailored to run applications from enterprise applications vendor SAP. – Novell has released a new version of its
popular SUSE Linux distribution optimized to run SAP
applications, deepening its already close relationship with the enterprise
software vendor.
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server for SAP applications quot;simplifies
both physical and virtual deployments of…
Novell is reportedly in talks with VMware to sell off its Linux software business. – Just weeks after signing a deal to make VMware an even bigger Linux partner than it had been to date, Novell is reportedly considering selling off its Linux business to VMware.
According to the Wall Street Journal,
Novell is in “advanced talks” with at least two buyers, one of which is
VMware, wh…
Novell’s cloud management solution is hypervisor agnostic and offers a built-in connector to Novell Sentinel. – Computer management services specialist Novell announced the
availability of Cloud Manager, a solution designed to enable customers
to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as an
extension of existing data center resources. Cloud Manager is designed
for the heterogeneous reali…
Despite faltering financial results, Novell pushes on with partnerships such as that with VMware for the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware. –
Just
when things were beginning to look pretty bleak for Novell, in comes a new
partnership with an old friend to help the beleaguered company.
In
its latest financial results Novell reported net revenue of $199 million for
its third fiscal quarter of 2010, which was down from net revenue of …
Despite the demise of Google Wave, Novell Systems will continue working to bring its Novell Pulse real-time collaboration platform to the market. Novell competes with Google, Microsoft and IBM in collaboration software. – Google Wave may have crashed on the beach of consumer indifference,
but that doesn’t mean the rest of the real-time collaboration platforms will be
lost at sea.
Novell Systems, battling Google, Microsoft and IBM over enterprise
software contracts, said it will continue working to bring its Novel…
Novell delivers Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform applications. Mono Tools 2.0 features new Mac OS X support. – Novell
has delivered Mono Tools for Visual Studio 2.0, a new version of the open-source
tool for developers to use Visual Studio to design, code and maintain multiplatform
applications.
Mono
Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 is an add-in module for the Visual Studio
integrated development environm…
Novells new Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 software appliance simplifies compliance and improves security by streamlining deployment and facilitating IT transparency through data collection, search and reporting capabilities. – Novell recently announced the availability of
Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.1, making the new log management solution
available as a software appliance.
Novell has long been a proponent of software
appliances, which are basically pre-configured combinations of an
application, middleware and ope…
U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart closes the 7-year-old case — from the federal district perspective, anyway — by reaffirming that SCO’s claims against Novell in the long-running litigation over ownership of Unix operating system copyrights were unconvincing. – Is the 7-year-old intellectual property lawsuit between Unix server maker SCO
Group and Novell finally at its end? If it isn’t officially over, then it’s
very, very close.
Salt Lake City U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart on June 10 closed the case from
the federal district perspective, anyway by…
MeeGo Linux will need considerable investment to succeed, according to a report from market research company Ovum. Novell plans to release SUSE MeeGo for netbooks. – Despite new support from Novell, the fledgling MeeGo
Linux project needs quot;major investment quot; to catch up to other competing
solutions, according to a report by market research company Ovum.
On June 1, Novell announced that it would quot;release SUSE MeeGo as a
fully supported operating…
Microsoft and Novell report an increase in the number of companies seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which lets businesses deploy workload management across both Windows HPC Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Those companies hail from a number of economic sectors, including finance and health care, suggesting that business spending on high-level IT infrastructure projects in general could be on the rise after a long period of stagnation. Microsoft has previously announced its intention of make HPC a more mainstream proposition. – Microsoft and Novell have reported an increase in the number of companies
seeking their high-performance computing interoperability offering, which
deploys workload management across both Windows HPC
Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and allows IT managers to balance
server workloads by r…
IP Innovation originally filed litigation against Novell and Red Hat in 2007. The Acacia Research subsidiary accuses the two companies of infringing on three patents that described technologies for sharing workloads among remotely located computers.
– One by one, intellectual property lawsuits against companies that use
open-source software in their products are falling by the wayside.
A jury in East Texas May 3 declared that user-interface
patent infringement claims filed against Red Hat and Novell by IP Innovation, a
subsidiary of Acacia …
IT networking and middleware provider Novell will provide on-demand, cloud-based secure-access services for telecom giant Verizon’s upcoming SAAS offerings.
– Financially troubled Novell, which recently rejected a $2
billion takeover bid by a hedge fund but apparently is still listening to
buyout offers at the right stock price, had some better news April 29.
The IT networking and middleware provider has struck a deal with telecommunications
giant V…
Cisco Systems is offering new e-mail and Web security services that attempt to make cloud computing more secure. The services are part of Cisco’s larger Secure Borderless Network architecture. In a separate announcement, Verizon and Novell say they are partnering on a identity management solution for cloud environments.
– Cisco Systems, Verizon Business and Novell are unveiling offerings designed
to make cloud computing more secure.
Cisco on April 28 announced security services based around e-mail
and the Internet that are part of the company’s cloud protection push and its
Secure Borderless Network architecture,…
