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"Microsoft is buying $100 million in additional SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates and the pair are going to continue to collaborate on interopability solutions through January 1, 2016. The SUSE certificates are designed to insure Microsoft customers who are implementing Linux that they won’t be caught in any Microsoft-Linux patent crossfire."
"Attachmate is moving swiftly to re-organize the Novell business it acquired for $2.2 billion. Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project."
"As expected, the buyout of Linux power Novell by Attachmate has finally gone through. On April 27th, Attachmate acquired Novell for $6.10 per share in cash–approximately $2.2-billion. With this deal completed, Novell is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group, the parent company of Attachmate Corporation. Immediately prior to the merger Novell completed it’s “previously announced sale of certain identified issued patents and patent applications to CPTN Holdings LLC for $450 million in cash.”"
"A consortium made up of Apple, EMC, Microsoft and Oracle which planned to purchase 882 Novell patents, following Novell's takeover by Attachmate, has altered its strategy in order to defuse anti-trust concerns. According to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the consortium will only exist for a further three months with the aim of dividing the Novell patents up between its members. All four members will be granted licenses for all of the patents. Microsoft is reported to have undertaken to sell its patents back to Attachmate and retain only the right to use the technologies protected by the patents. Similarly, VMware parent EMC is reported to have agreed not to acquire any of the patents relating to virtualisation."
"Novell says that LibreOffice with Novell Services consists of the six applications that make up the suite – "word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, mathematical and drawing capabilities" – offers seamless interoperability with Microsoft Office, and, in comparison to other productivity suites, can offer a cost reduction of 50 to 60 per cent over a three year period."
"Novell today announced DB2, IBM's highly successful database software, is now available as an easy-to-use online download on SUSE® Gallery and as an adaptable template within SUSE Studio™. Today's announcement builds on Novell's momentum to deliver software appliances across a range of IBM software, including WebSphere, Lotus and Smart Business, all powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise. DB2 is the first IBM software available for download from SUSE Gallery, an online showcase where users can browse, download and publish software appliances and cloud-based applications. The DB2 template is also available within Novell's appliance-building tool SUSE Studio, which greatly simplifies the process of creating an appliance based on DB2 database software. As a result, ISVs have the choice of downloading DB2 as a software appliance from SUSE Gallery and using it immediately, or using SUSE Studio to customize the database image to fit their specific needs."
"The ongoing acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, will apparently not affect Novell's plans to hold a BrainShare event this year – this will now take place in October, some months later in the year than the 2010 March event."
"Prior to this filing, the members of a group calling themselves CPTN Holdings declined to divulge what kinds of patents were among those it plans to buy from Novell as part of the deal involving Attachmate Corp.’s purchase of Novell."
"When Novell turned down an offer to be acquired by hedge fund Elliot Associates earlier this year, it seemed like the Linux vendor was looking for a better deal. The company announced today that it has accepted an offer to be acquired for $2.2 billion by software company Attachmate. Parallel to the acquisition, Novell has sold over 800 patents for $450 million to a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft."
"Do you want to see how SUSE® Linux Enterprise can help you better manage your data center? Seeking ways to enhance your IT environment with the latest innovations? Want to understand where Linux and data center computing are headed?"
"In this session, Marc-Arthur Pierre-Louis will show you how Rational Team Concert, Rational ClearCase and Rational Software Architect provide the infrastructure to better manage software development."
"Novell today released SUSE® Gallery™, a new online showcase for registered SUSE® Studio users to publish their appliances and cloud-based applications. With SUSE Gallery, end users can browse published appliances for the solution to their particular commercial or personal need, and then download the appliance free of charge. With an appliance, the end user avoids the typical installation and configuration headaches that come with many traditional software applications. For independent software vendors (ISVs) and other software developers, SUSE Gallery represents an opportunity to broaden the exposure of their application and reach an entirely new audience."
"VMware and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT), two rival virtualization technology providers with little love between them, are now publicly feuding over what VMware's decision to offer an OEM version of Novell (NSDQ:NOVL)'s SUSE Linux means.
The latest spat between the two stems from a June 9 announcement that VMware will distribute and support Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system with its vSphere technology, and will standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on that operating system, known also as SLES."
"Novell has made a great move: If you own licenses for Sun software, such as Sun IM, you can swap those licenses, for free, for Novell licenses. All you pay is maintenance.
Smart move.
The real fear for many of our clients, and for you in the field, is not just the current upfront costs, but the long-term costs associated with being aligned with Oracle products."
"In recognition of the 10 year anniversary of Linux* on IBM System z*, Novell today announced customer adoption, open source product innovation and ISV and partner support of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for IBM* System z. As the market leader for Linux on System z, Novell is the only operating system vendor to support Linux on IBM mainframe servers for its entire 10 year history and continues to capture market share with new customers and channel partners. Since 2000, when SUSE Linux Enterprise Server became the first commercially-available enterprise Linux distribution for IBM System z mainframes, Novell has delivered Linux-based mainframe solutions that customers across all industries can deploy to expand their critical applications and workloads."
"Novell announced SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in server and desktop versions. SLE 11 SP1 advances the server version's virtualization capabilities with full support for KVM, while boosting high availability clustering support, and the desktop version updates audio, Bluetooth, and multi-monitor support."
"Join Carol Stafford, Vice President of IBM System z Sales and Tom Crabb, Enablement Manager, Novell, as they celebrate and discuss the 10 year anniversary of Linux on System z and how customers can benefit from running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z."
"Other important features in Service Pack 1 are kernel resource management and support for up to 4096 CPUs and 16TB of RAM in a system. Xen is updated to version 4.0 and Novell SLES SP1 also supports the alternative KVM virtualisation solution. The drivers which Microsoft released as open source for paravirtualised operation when running as a Hyper-V guest are included."
"Although BrainShare was not held in 2009 because of the rocky economy, BrainShare 20TEN, as it's being called, has drawn roughly 4,000 attendees for four days of hands-on training, networking and socializing. And a European version will be held in Amsterdam later this year after a five-year absence, said Novell marketing officer John Dragoon, who said the conference was back by popular demand from Novell customers."
"Filling a position left open since 2008, former Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe has taken on the role of chief executive officer for the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)."
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