Displaying items by tag: Novell

Sunday, 08 November 2009 11:10

Google Wave gets a Pulse

Novell's newly-announced Pulse – an integrated communication, authoring and social networking platform now has full integration with Google Wave.

Published in Market
Friday, 06 November 2009 15:20

Novell sacks more staff, cuts benefits

Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be linked to another bad quarter.

Published in Open Sauce
Friday, 23 October 2009 19:16

Novell BrainShare - definitely back in 2010

After a one-year hiatus, Novell’s BrainShare conference will be returning in 2010, bigger and better than ever.

Published in Strategy
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:23

Novell's threat assessment survey results

According to a self-administered survey, Enterprises are still at risk from common security 'gaps.'

Published in Security
Samba and Mono differ in the ways the two projects have chosen to deal with software patents in the implementation, according to renowned Samba developer Jeremy Allison.
Published in Open Sauce
Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza has dismissed Microsoft's bid to sell patents that could be used to attack Linux, saying it was not a problem as the patents were now in good hands.
Published in Open Sauce
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 09:20

Miguel snuggles closer to Microsoft

Over the past week, a couple of events have served to highlight the extent to which Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza is helping Microsoft to implement its strategy of curbing the growth of free and open source software.

Published in Open Sauce
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 08:26

MonoTouch brings .Net to the iPhone

Overnight, Novell announced the availability of MonoTouch which allows .Net developers to bring their tools and skills together to create iPhone applications

Published in Development
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 05:32

SCO case: UNIX ownership to be decided by jury

An appeals court in the long-running case between SCO and Novell has ruled that a decision on who owns the copyrights to UNIX must be decided by a jury and not a judge.

Published in Open Sauce
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 07:12

Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source

If one were to go by the amount of noise made by pro-Mono people regarding the superiority of the Microsoft clone which they love, one would conclude that C# is the programming language du jour. The reality appears to be somewhat different.

Published in Open Sauce
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 08:08

Mono project releases Moonlight 2 beta

Earlier this week, Novell’s Mono Project announced the availability of the beta of Moonlight 2 – a reimplementation of Silverlight for the Linux platform.

Published in Development
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:28

If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it?

When a company announces a technology release, the least one would expect is that the company itself has found said technology worthy of use.
Published in Open Sauce
Novell has announced that all partners and users will have access to the product development portal.  If you're agitating for an enhancement, here's your chance to push it through.

Published in Strategy
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 07:51

Push to make KDE default desktop for OpenSUSE

Members of the OpenSUSE community are rallying behind a suggestion to make KDE the default desktop environment for the distribution.
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 09:18

Microsoft code cannot taint Linux

Exactly why people would want to run a stable system like Linux on top of an unstable one like Windows - any version - isn't clear to me.

Published in Open Sauce
Thursday, 09 July 2009 11:45

Google Chrome OS: enterprise grade?

While most pundits are positioning Google's newly announced foray into the operating system space as an attempt to capture the netbook market, there is a new suggestion that Google Chrome OS may well be enterprise grade. Can this be true?

Published in Core Dump
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.

Published in Open Sauce
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 08:07

Microsoft appears to clarify Mono licensing

Microsoft has decided to allow developers to use C# and the common language infrastructure, both of which are part of its .NET development environment, under the terms of its community promise, according to a statement from Peter Galli of Microsoft.
Published in Open Sauce
You may know of Xandros Linux; for many people exposure came through the Eee PC, with this being the distro chosen by Linux-turncoat ASUS. Yet, what is Xandros' stance on open source software? Might Xandros be a thinly-veiled Microsoft tout as Linspire reborn?

Wednesday, 03 June 2009 06:17

Even OpenSUSE recognises drawbacks of Mono

Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
Published in Open Sauce

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