Archive for 'Novell'
As the SCO rolls
Reality, as good writers know, is sometimes stranger than fiction. SCO’s recent performance in the U.S. District Court in Utah is a perfect example. With years to prepare, SCO executives made some remarkable statements in their attempt to show that SCO, not Novell, owns Unix’s copyright.
While this case is not about SCO’s claims that IBM [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Linux, Novell, Open Source, Operating System, SCO, Sun, Unix.
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OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux a real challenge.
Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. I’m inclined to doubt it simply because OpenSolaris has failed to develop [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Novell, Open Source, Operating System, SCO, Sun, Unix.
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SCO gets it Day in Court
Years into its legal wars against Linux, SCO gets another chance to go to court on April 28th. However, the case at hand, one last attempt to show that it, and not Novell, owns Unix’s copyright isn’t the case, SCO wanted. Instead of threatening the legality of Linux, this four-day trial will only determine whether [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Business, Legal, Linux, Novell, SCO, Unix.
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Jealousy? Novell, Red Hat, and the Linux Desktop
Recently, both Novell and Red Hat went on record as dismissing the idea that the consumer Linux desktop is going to be taking off anytime soon. It’s not? Has anyone told Asus and Xandros? Everex and gOS? How about Dell and Ubuntu? They’re all doing great with consumer Linux desktops.
Novell actually isn’t taking an extreme [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Business, Desktop, Linux, Novell, Red Hat.
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Novell strengthens Data Center Play with PlateSpin Purchase
Chances are you haven’t heard of PlateSpin. Trust me, for Novell, which purchased the enterprise data center workload lifecycle management company, this is a major step forward in moving into the data center.
PlateSpin’s software enables system administrators to move workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system. It lets companies [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Business, Infrastructure, Linux, Mergers, Novell, Server, Virtualization.
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