News about Novell's Linux commitments

 Novell, VMware Collaborate On Linux Virtual Machines, Jun 20, 2008

VMware is collaborating with Novell to improve Linux performance in VMware virtualized environments. Novell has added support for VMware's Virtual Machine Interface into the SUSE Linux Kernel.

It was a five year deal, but 18 months in to the hell-frozen-over cooperation agreement between Microsoft and Novell, Novell executives indicate things are still moving along swimmingly.

Ron Hovsepian, CEO of Novell, took an unwarranted swipe at Red Hat for failing to show up to the Linux desktop market, but by Red Hat's own admission, it's not really interested in the traditional desktop market.

Software maker Novell reported second quarter Linux revenue of $29m (£14.5m) from flat total revenue of $232m, profit reached $2m compared with a $12m loss for the same period last year.

Users hungry to try out Novell's Silverlight clone for Linux and Unix can start kicking the tires on the rich media technology. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3747361/Novell+Readies+Silverlight+Clone+for+Linux.htm

Stripped-down operating systems made specifically for virtual machine appliances have tickled the fancy of the Linux collective, and these types of systems are keeping commercial distributors busy pushing out their versions of the concept.

Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp., trying to expand the reach of their unusual alliance, say they plan to put a bigger emphasis on the Chinese market.

Miguel de Icaza, who heads up the open-source Mono project, has provided an update on a project to create Silverlight applications that run out of the browser, moving a small step toward what Adobe Systems offers with AIR

Open-source pioneer and Novell Vice President Miguel de Icaza Thursday for the first time publicly slammed his company's cross-patent licensing agreement with Microsoft as he defended himself against lack of patent protection for third parties that distribute his company's Moonlight project, which ports Microsoft's Silverlight technology to Linux.

But who's doing the buying? While the cash-flush software maker wants to make acquisitions, Novell itself could be a target

Novell has extended a set of development tools so they can be used to write applications and other software for rival Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.

Give Novell credit. Rather than slamming The VAR Guy for a particularly harsh blog post about the software company, Novell reached out to him and engaged in a healthy dialog.

For more than a year now, Microsoft and Novell have appeared to be best buddies. While it is true that two former enemies are now on good terms, they'd never agreed to settle one issue: Novell's lawsuit against Microsoft for illegally crushing WordPerfect.

A GNU/Linux system does not normally load modules that are not released under an approved licence. So why should Australia’s national Linux conference take on board a sponsor who engages in practices that are at odds with the community?

Having successfully reinvented itself as a Linux company, Novell is now making a substantial portion of its turnover from a single and surprising source - Microsoft.

Linux revenue was up 69% (both for the quarter and for the year), to $22 million in the quarter and $77 million for the year. That's nothing to cry about.

After an unexpected delay of eight days, Novell finally announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2007 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31, 2007. Novell reported net revenue for the overall year of $932 million, a loss of $26 million or 8 cents per share, although the company also reported 69 percent growth in its core Linux products.

Second in the Linux server business to leader Red Hat, Novell is continuing to strive for major server wins. In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1.

A top Red Hat executive has accused arch-rival Novell of reselling a beta version of the company's open source code.

Novell is shipping the first real-time SUSE Linux enterprise data center operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10.

Novell's channel partners have not been happy lately. Novell knows that, and on Nov. 19, the Linux power announced a new initiative to increase revenue and profitability for solution providers and consulting partners that specialize in selling Novell technologies.

Novell channels and alliances vice president Steve Erdman has left the company and this week Novell appointed a former Hyperion executive to a newly created position of vice president of global channel sales.

Novell Suse Linux is positioning itself to be the corporate Linux of choice for today's multi-OS corporation thanks to a series of agreements with companies such as SAP and Microsoft.

Linux vendor Novell is heading off after the small business sector now with its latest release, the Novell Open Workgroup Suite Small Business Edition (say that in one breath).

Two years after acquiring the company that developed the AppArmor security software for Linux, Novell has laid off team members behind the project, CNET News.com has learned.

Novell's long journey from NetWare to Linux is finally complete. On Oct. 8, Novell released Open Enterprise Server 2 to its customers worldwide.

For some time, we have not heard anything about the patent sellout which Novell inked with Microsoft 11 months ago. Microsoft has since used the deal as the basis for spreading FUD about Linux, with claims that the free operating system could be in violation of as many as 235 patents which Microsoft claims to own.

Novell says its Linux business has grown by 243 percent over the last three quarters, and it largely credits its deal with Microsoft.

Open source company Novell relaunched its Linux driver program on Thursday.

Novell Inc.'s Linux business has soared 243% since last November, when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft Corp.

NOVELL SUSE has released an alpha level video driver for ATI Radeon R5xx/R6xx boards, it says on its website.

Novell has announced that it has made modifications to its SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution that will better enable it to run as a virtual machine on VMware technology, and that the modifications will be added to the Linux kernel at a later date.

Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. today announced the opening of their joint new interoperability lab in Cambridge, Mass., 10 months after the two companies unveiled a collaboration deal that aims to make it easier to run Windows and Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux together in corporate data centers.

Interoperability is to Microsoft what prostitution is to a pimp: a great source of control and income.

Novell came up aces in its third-quarter report yesterday. The operating loss was smaller than last year, despite tepid sales growth of 3%, and $20 million in free cash flow is nothing to sneeze at.

Novell finally has managed to deliver a good quarter. Not exceptional, but solid.

In the wake of last week's ruling that Novell, and not SCO, controls the copyrights covering UNIX, Novell is reassuring Unix users that it has no plans to follow in SCO's footsteps. Given that the company is no longer in the business of selling UNIX, it has no reason to pursue any copyright claims.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says Linux is now mainstream, but developers need to create more apps to expand the market.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says it is in his interest to give customers GPLv3 code when they are seeking updates, even if the customer was paying for Novell support through Microsoft certificates.

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian explained rather than defended his company's deal with Microsoft in his keynote address at the annual LinuxWorld Conference here Aug. 8.

Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled.

Surrounded by a culture of freedom in an ecosystem where liberty and empowerment are the end as well as the means, open-source software developers are radically transforming the way that many businesses and individuals use and create software.

Novell will continue to ship the complete version of its Linux enterprise server even though Microsoft is attempting to distance itself legally from the new General Public License (GPL) v3 open source license.

Novell didn't win many friends in the open-source community with its Microsoft partnership. However, that deal, along with Novell's growing partnerships with enterprise software players such as SAP and now Capgemini are bound to win it friends in big business.

Novell Inc. has announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter, which ended April 30.

Some people are rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of Novell crashing and burning completely, but such a development could actually turn out to be one of the worst things to happen to free software.

"There are positives around the revenue and operating income coming in higher than expected, and you have Linux doing well," said James Gilman, an analyst at Soleil Securities Corp., who rates the shares "sell."

Novell Wednesday said its deal with Microsoft is helping drive gains in its Linux business, but danced around questions concerning how that deal may be altered given coming changes in open source licensing.

In a regulatory filing, Novell said that proposed revisions to the General Public License could -- in their current draft form -- force the company "to modify our relationship with Microsoft" or "explore alternatives" to the deal.

How much more do we know about the Microsoft-Novell deal now, after Novell posted some of the details of three agreements on the web on Saturday as part of a regular filing with the SEC? Precisely nothing that we did not know earlier

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