Displaying items by tag: Novell

A bid by Canonical to profit from the inclusion of the Mono-dependent music player Banshee in its next Ubuntu release has failed.

Red Hat continues to hold its lead as the main corporate contributor to the development of the Linux kernel, according to the annual Linux Foundation report on kernel development which has just been released.

Novell has announced that its intellectual property pertaining to UNIX remains with the company after its sale to Attachmate Corporation.

Microsoft has done so well out of the Novell sale that I wouldn't be surprised to find out some months down the line that the whole deal was planned and packaged in Redmond.

Announced overnight, Novell is to be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for $US2.2b.

CA Technologies has appointed two of its executives to state senior director roles.

Last week, Miguel de Icaza, a vice-president at Novell, announced the release of version 2.8 of Mono, a project he set up to create an open source clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.

Over the past few days, there has been speculation that Novell's GNU/Linux business will soon be bought by VMware, the company that is partially owned by EMC Corporation and makes virtualisation products.

Rumours are abounding that following a rejected buyout offer in March, Novell is about to be broken into two parts and sold separately.

Google has announced plans to release a working and workable subset of its now defunct Google Wave project as the open source Wave in a Box.

HP's TippingPoint operation will publicly disclose security vulnerabilities six months after they are reported.

Liquor group Pernod Ricard Australia has emerged as one of the early local pioneers for Novell's Cloud Manager, currently available in beta form, prior to the product's formal launch slated for September.

When would one expect an organisation like the Free Software Foundation to be really relevant to the world of computing at large – when there is a limited threat to freedom in computing or when the threat is increasing exponentially?

In its hurry to embark on ventures that would result in making its GNU/Linux distribution a profitable one, it looks like Canonical, the makers of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux, has gone a step too far.

The SCO Group was yesterday (US time) denied a fresh trial by the district court of Utah to examine its claim to own the IP for UNIX and this looks to be the end of the road for the long-running litigation.

Novell, which put itself on the block some months ago, has sought expressions of interest from suitors by the end of the week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

HP has appointed David Shirk as senior vice president of worldwide marketing for the company's enterprise business.

When Hubert Figuiere, a developer who had lost his job with Novell in the first quarter of 2009, released the note-taking application Gnote on April 1 last year, one doubts that he had any idea about the kind of attacks which would be launched on him by Mono advocates and apologists.

A jury in Utah has awarded the ownership of the UNIX copyrights to Novell, ending a long-running battle with SCO.

Miguel de Icaza, a vice-president at Novell and the founder of the Mono project, made a number of statements recently that were diametrically opposed to all that he has said earlier about Microsoft's .NET development environment.