Novell takes VMware interface to Linux kernel, Sep 17, 2007

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.

Over a year ago CBR published a look at the UK's adoption of open source software in the UK and promised a later update. That update is long overdue, and is also timely given that tomorrow some of the leading open source advocates in the country will gather in Westminster to debate the future of open source in this country.

SCO Group's breach-of-contract and copyrights claims against IBM have been annihilated by the decision that Novell, not SCO, is the rightful owner of the Unix copyrights, according to IBM.

Following Judge Kimball's declaration that the Unix System V copyrights belonged to Novell, Steven Vaughan-Nichols speculated about what the decision might mean for Sun, which updated its Unix license to System 5 Release 5 in February 2003.

According to the Judge’s memorandum, there is some doubt as to whether SCO ever truly believed it was the owner of those copyrights...

The recent announcement that Microsoft intends to submit licenses for approval by the Open Source Initiative indicates that the company has come a long way since its chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Linux as 'a cancer' in June 2001.

Oracle has announced the first big-name software vendor to support its Unbreakable Linux support program with the news that Symantec is certifying its Veritas software to Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Linux distributor Turbolinux has announced that it has joined the Open XML Translator project, an open source development effort sponsored by Microsoft to create interoperability between the OOXML and ODF formats.

Open source isn’t religion; it’s an evolution of the software industry. I say ‘an evolution’ rather than ‘the evolution’, because the beauty of evolution is that is creates a great many answers to the same question

Novell and Microsoft have announced another dozen customers signing up to their interoperability agreement through which Microsoft is distributing vouchers for SUSE Linux Enterprise support.

Novell Inc's head of marketing for Linux and open source has apologized to the Free Software Foundation and the open source community after making misleading statements about the company's financial contribution to the FSF.

Open source database vendor MySQL AB is preparing itself for an initial public offering, and could even be ready to go public before the end of the year, according to its CEO Marten Mickos.

Between Oracle's support offering and Microsoft's patent pledge, recent events could prove significant for the Linux operating system market.

Open source advocate Bruce Perens has warned Novell Inc that it risks being left behind by open source progress unless it turns its back on its recent patent covenant with Microsoft Corp.

Novell Inc appears to have ditched the JBoss application server from its SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution following the acquisition of the open source application server vendor by Red Hat Inc.

Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss could have significant implications for the enterprise software market. Matthew Aslett reports

Novell Inc's president and COO Ron Hovsepian has defended the company's SUSE Linux business, maintaining that it is performing better than the company's revenue figures suggest.

Microsoft Corp is using scare tactics to exert pressure on PC vendors not to explore the potential of desktop Linux, according to Novell Inc president and chief operating officer, Ron Hovsepian.

IBM Corp has asked the court hearing its breach of contract defense against SCO Group Inc to throw out the majority of SCO's claimed evidence against it, maintaining that 201 of SCO's 294 examples fail to identify any misuse.

The head of Microsoft Corp's Linux and Open Source Software Lab is taking on responsibility for the company's shared source initiative after its former manager, Jason Matusow, stepped up to the role of director in the corporate standards strategy team.