SCO encounters new listing problems, Mar 24, 2005

The SCO Group, already awaiting the outcome of its delisting appeal for not filing its fiscal 2004 earnings, now has been told its failure to file a first-quarter report also could deny it a slot on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Leicester's De Montfort University is ditching Microsoft and Unix for a SUSE Linux-based platform from Novell for its server infrastructure as part of a wider strategic plan to streamline its IT operations.

Linux is ready for the corporate desktop, and the forthcoming version of Novell Inc.'s Linux Desktop offering will go head-to-head against Windows, Novell executives said this week at the company's annual BrainShare gathering in Salt Lake City.

"The Windows problem still dwarfs these other problems because internet criminals know that there are an awful lot of clueless Windows users," says Graham Cluley, security consultant at UK anti-virus firm Sophos.

Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security.

Tally Systems Corp. has agreed to be acquired by Novell Inc. Terms were undisclosed.

If you're thrifty and you use an office suite, it's hard not to like OpenOffice.org, the open-source set of office productivity tools. Version 1.0, which first appeared in 2002, does most things Microsoft Office can do (including smoothly trade files with users of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). Plus it's free. So what's to improve in version 2.0?

Messman explains Novell's Linux desktop strategy and why China is not even on his radar

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