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Jury Decision Confirms Novell’s Ownership of Unix

March 30th, 2010 | No Comments

In its lawsuits, SCO Group, which has been in bankruptcy for several years, had been seeking about $251 million in Unix license fees plus unspecified damages. SCO Group’s ultimate goal was to gain control over the open-source Linux operating system, which is based in part on the original Unix code created at AT T’s Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s.
– In an IP copyright case that stretches back to 2004, a jury in Salt
Lake City ruled March 30 that networking and
middleware software maker Novell legally retains ownership rights to the Unix
enterprise operating system, defeating a stubborn legal challenge from The SCO
Group of Lindon, Utah.

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Novell Pulse Demo Shows Real-Time Collaboration for Businesses

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Novell is opening its Novell Pulse collaboration platform for preview March 21 to attendees of its BrainShare conference. Pulse is a Google Wave-like software platform that lets users create documents and co-edit them in real time. While Wave was initially consumer-focused, Pulse is geared for enterprises from the start, providing fine-grained rules for access control. Whereas Wave sessions were initially built as completely public, those who create a Pulse get to decide who uses it down to the person, department and company levels. eWEEK runs through Pulse in this slide show.
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Google Wave Rival Novell Pulse Launching to Preview March 21

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Novell plans to roll out its Pulse collaboration platform as a preview for all 3,000 attendees of its Novell Brainshare conference March 21. Pulse, built on the Google Wave Federation Protocol Google made available to open source, lets users create and upload content, including documents, photos and videos. Users can also upload office documents from Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF and OpenOffice. Novell Pulse is a serious enterprise platform, placing a greater emphasis on security and management settings than Wave.
– Novell plans to roll out its Pulse collaboration platform
as a preview for all 3,000 attendees of its Novell
Brainshare conference March 21, company officials told eWEEK.
Pulse, like Google Wave, lets users author and
upload content,
including documents, photos and videos, share them, and co-ed…

Novell Adds Ingres DB to SUSE Studio Online

March 19th, 2010 | No Comments

A new template for the Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers of managing the life cycle of the operating system or the middleware database component within their appliances.
– SAN FRANCISCO Novell and open-source database provider Ingres March 18 announced that they have hooked
up to make the long-established, enterprise-class Ingres DB available in
Novell’s SUSE Studio.

SUSE Studio is a toolkit used by independent software vendors to build virtual
machine-based app…

Novell Confirms $1B Acquisition Bid by Hedge Fund

March 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

UPDATED: The software networking company reports that Elliott Associates of New York sent a letter to its board of directors offering to buy the company for $5.75 per share, a 115 percent premium over the stock value on Jan. 4, 2009. Stock prices rose 26 percent to $6 in after-hours trading on March 2.
– Networking software maker Novell confirmed late March 2 that it has received an unsolicited offer of $1 billion, net of cash on the company’s books, to be acquired by Elliott
Associates, a New York-based hedge fund that already owns 8.5 percent of the company.

The statement issued by Novell’s c…

Novell Launches Moonlight 2.0

December 17th, 2009 | No Comments

The Mono Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, has announced the release of Moonlight 2, an open-source Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight cross-platform browser plug-in and rich Internet application platform.
– The Mono Project, an open-source initiative sponsored by Novell, has
announced the release of Moonlight 2, an open-source Linux
implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight cross-platform browser
plug-in and rich Internet application platform.
In addition to announcing the release of Moonlight 2, M…

HP Partners with Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat in Courting Sun Users

December 15th, 2009 | No Comments

HP, which has been aggressive in enticing Sun customers, is partnering with operating systems makers Microsoft, Novell and Red Hat in its efforts. The partnerships are part of HPs overall Sun Complete Care program, a collection of products, services, support and financial incentives designed to lure customers worried about Suns future over to HP. Over the past year, about 350 Sun customers have made the move, according to HP.
– Hewlett-Packard is calling in Microsoft, Red Hat and Novell to help it cherry-pick customers from Sun Microsystems.
HP officials said Dec. 15 that the operating system vendors are
bringing service offerings, incentives and training programs designed
to make it easier for Sun customers to migrate …

Novell Launches Mono Tools for Visual Studio

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Novell announces the release of its Mono Tools for Visual Studio, a set of development tools designed to facilitate the development of .NET applications for Linux, Unix and Mac OS X within Microsoft Visual Studio.
– Novell Nov. 10 announced the release of its Mono Tools for Visual Studio, a
set of development tools designed to quot;facilitate the development of .NET
applications for Linux, Unix and Mac OS X within Microsoft Visual Studio. quot;
The Novell technology is available as an add-in module for Micr…

Novell, Microsoft Celebrate 3rd Year of Interoperability

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft and Novell celebrated the third year of their interoperability agreement at an event taking place at the Society for Information Management, SIMposium09, conference in Seattle on Nov. 9.
– Microsoft and Novell celebrated the third year of their
interoperability agreement at an event taking place at the Society for
Information Management, SIMposium09, conference in Seattle on Nov. 9.
Indeed, three years after Microsoft and Novell first signed their
groundbreaking interoperability c…

Novell Pulse Launches with Google Wave Support for Real-Time Collaboration

November 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Novell launches Pulse, a real-time collaboration platform designed from its inception to work with Google Wave through the platform’s federation protocol. Similar to Wave, Pulse includes instant messaging, live document authoring and editing, and social networking tools. But unlike Wave, Pulse features the security, management and compliance capabilities required by businesses. Novell executives showed how Pulse communicates with Wave at the Enterprise 2.0 show in San Francisco.
– Novell Nov. 4 launched Pulse, a real-time collaboration platform designed
from its inception to let its users communicate with Google Wave users in a
secure environment.
Pulse is basically Google Wave, but tailored for enterprises and available behind
the firewall or on the Web as a cloud comput…

SAP and Novell Will Collaborate on Governance, Risk and Compliance

October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

SAP and Novell expand their existing partnership to cover GRC solutions and more fully integrate the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio with programs offered through the Novell line of security and identity products. The combined applications will offer unified user provisioning, access control and security event monitoring.
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and Novell announced Oct. 13 an expansion of their partnership to cover governance,
risk and compliance solutions. That expansion will see a further integration
between the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio and Novell security and identity
products, aligned to address clients’ GRC issues. The co…

Novell Brings .NET Development to the iPhone

September 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Novell has announced the commercial release of MonoTouch 1.0, a solution for developing applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch using the Microsoft .NET framework, including C# and other .NET programming languages.
– Novell has announced the commercial release of MonoTouch 1.0, a
solution for developing applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch
using the Microsoft .NET framework, including C# and other .NET
programming languages.
Novell officials touted the new technology as a liberating concept
for iPh…

REVIEW: SUSE Studio Is a Boon for Organizations Using Novell’s Linux Distros

July 31st, 2009 | No Comments

SUSE Studio is a Web-based service for creating software appliances on Novell’s family of SUSE Linux-based operating systems. SUSE Studio could prove very useful for any individual or organization that uses Novell’s Linux distributions by easing complex customization tasks.
– SUSE Studio is a Web-based service for creating custom operating system and
application bundles also known as software appliances based on Novell’s family
of SUSE Linux-based operating systems.
The free service, which recently concluded its limited beta period and is
now broadly accessible, is …

LABS GALLERY: Novell SUSE Studio Makes Linux Appliance Creation a Snap

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Novell’s SUSE Studio 1.0 is a Web-based service for building Linux-based software appliances that outshines similar services, such as rPath’s rBuilder, with its ease of use and tight integration with the existing framework of SUSE software tools and services. Also impressive is the service’s Test Drive feature, which enabled eWEEK Labs to cycle quickly through the tweak-build-test process of honing a software appliance.

By Jason Brooks
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Novell Launching IAM into the Cloud

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Novell is unveiling a cloud-based security service to perform identity and access management for hosted applications and hosted storage. The vendor plans to unveil the technology next week at a conference in San Diego.
– Novell plans to pull the covers off a cloud computing security service designed to provide identity and access management for hosted applications and storage next week.
The company will showcase the new technology, as well as a compliance reporting suite, at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Co…