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Tag Archives: Novell
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009
Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009
Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009
Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Software Product Quality Novell / Jeff Jaffe It is useful to review our comprehensive approach to quality. Quality is not a single process. It is baked into everything we do: before and during development; after products are shipped in the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Saturday, October 10, 2009
Open Source Build A Linux Distro With SUSE Studio InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Once, if you wanted to create your own Linux distribution, you had to jump through more hoops than your average Cirque du Soleil performer. Now it’s possible … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, September 10, 2009
Open Source BrainShare Returns! Novell / John Dragoon (CMO) It’s with great excitement that we are announcing the return of BrainShare in 2010. Not only will BrainShare return to Salt Lake City, Utah where it’s been for more than 20 … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-17
Scoop: InternetNZ supports Vint Cerf’s rejection of OOXML “InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) strongly supports calls from Internet pioneer Vint Cerf opposing Microsoft’s proposed OOXML (Office Open XML) document standard.” (tags: ooxml) U.S. Supreme Court rejects Microsoft … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-18
Sun Micro’s MySQL Acquisition Is Bad News for Novell – Seeking Alpha “Sun Micro’s (JAVA) move to acquire MySQL is bad news for the folks over at Novell (NOVL).” (tags: sun novell mysql)
links for 2007-08-12
Judge says Unix copyrights belong to Novell | CNET News.com “… a federal district court judge in Utah ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system.” (tags: … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-08
China and OOXML www.bbj.hu :: Microsoft ‘monopoly’ comes under fire “Chinese academics and software developers gathered in Beijing yesterday to voice their opposition to Microsoft’s latest standard document format Office Open XML (OOXML).” (tags: microsoft ooxml china) Open Source IBM, … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-25
Microsoft: Next Version Of Windows Due In 2010 — Microsoft Windows — InformationWeek 1) It will slip. 2) It won’t have discussed features. 3) If Windows Vista ends up being more Windows ME 2.0, then they’ll be under a lot … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Standards
Tagged ISO, Microsoft, Novell, OOXML, Red Hat, Spain
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links for 2007-07-03
Beverly Sills, the All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78 – New York Times “Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, …, died last night at … Continue reading
links for 2007-05-30
GPL3, Novell, Microsoft Novell Says Open Source License Changes Could Kill Microsoft Deal — Novell — InformationWeek “Novell said that proposed revisions to the General Public License could force the company to modify its relationship with Microsoft or find alternatives … Continue reading
links for 2007-01-31
Novell lands major Linux desktop contract in France “PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second-largest automobile manufacturer, and Novell announced the signing of a multiyear contract for the deployment of up to 20,000 Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop installations plus 2,500 copies … Continue reading
Wired article on ODF vs. Microsoft Office Open XML
See “MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs.” Here’s a blurb from it: The international community has yet to decide on a standard document format, though recent trends see ODF gaining ground. Seven nations (Brazil, France, Germany, Belgium, Croatia, Norway … Continue reading
Word of the day: “Danaergeschenk”
See Novell’s “Danaergeschenk”, by Georg Greve on Groklaw. Please comment there if you agree or disagree, I’m just providing the reference.
links for 2006-12-08
The Continuing Open XML Debacle + Some DRM Shebanation: Is Office Open XML A One-Way Standard? Ask Microsoft Must read. I’m stunned, literally. These numbers are amazing. (tags: odf microsoft) PlexNex: Rob Weir on Song “IBM’s Weir has cranked the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Document Formats, News, Standards
Tagged Adobe, Microsoft, Netherlands, Novell, ODF, OOXML, Science Fiction, SVG
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links for 2006-12-06
ConsortiumInfo.org – Novell, ODF and Castles in the Sand Andy Updegrove’s usual sane approach to a current frenzy in the industry: Net: ODF is winning and will still win, in my opinion. (tags: odf) The magical mathematics of music (tags: … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Macintosh, Music, News, Open Source, Science
Tagged Apple, Architecture, Linux, mathematics, Microsoft, Novell, ODF, Office, Red Hat
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Novell, Open XML, whatever
There’s some news today regarding Novell adding Open XML support into their flavor of OpenOffice.org. No disrespect intended, but I absolutely stand by what I said in my blog entry “Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?”. … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source
Tagged Microsoft, Novell, ODF, OOXML, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2006-11-30
Open Source open…: Closing in on the Tipping Point “The latest of the by-now venerable Evans Data reports on developers shows some pretty amazing trends.” (tags: linux microsoft development software) Novell drops its Hula challenger to Microsoft | The Register … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Music, News, Open Source, Programming, Science
Tagged Guitar, Java, JBoss, mathematics, Microsoft, Novell, Sudoku, Sun
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links for 2006-11-28
Hmmm�Did Your Blog Get a Hair Cut? at tecosystems Steve O’Grady moves to WordPress. (tags: wordpress blog) The commons takes on Microsoft | Open Source | ZDNet.com “The Internet and open source, by their nature, expand the commons, which like … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Tagged Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Ubuntu, WordPress
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French parliament goes open source, enables ODF
Nice news out of Paris today via CNet: “French parliament dumping Windows for Linux.” “The study showed that open-source software will from now on offer functionality adapted to the needs of MPs (members of parliament) and will allow us to … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source
Tagged France, Linux, Microsoft, Novell, ODF, OOXML, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2006-11-22
Microsoft and Novell Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims “In an open letter to the Linux and open-source community, Novell repudiates suggestions that its recent collaboration agreement with Microsoft acknowledges that Linux infringes on Microsoft’s intellectual property.” (tags: novell microsoft linux) … Continue reading
Some new commentary on Microsoft/Novell deal
Here are some links to stories that broke today regarding the Microsoft/Novell deal: InfoWorld: “OIN speaks out on the Novell/Microsoft pact” Here is part of the OIN statement: “Customers can only benefit from greater interoperability between Linux and Microsoft products. … Continue reading
Microsoft vs. Novell
No wonder people were confused. See “Open Letter to the Community from Novell” and “Microsoft Statement on Novell Agreement”. Update: Here are a few more links: ZDNet blog: “This Microsoft-Novell partnership’s not all it’s cracked up to be” You know … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-08
Open Source Adobe Donates Flash to Open Source Community “Adobe will be working with the Mozilla Foundation to open source its flash player scripting engine, creating a new open standard for interactive Web applications.” (tags: adobe flash opensource) Adobe Makes … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Music, News, Open Source
Tagged Adobe, Eclipse, Microsoft, Novell, ODF
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ODF Alliance Statement regarding Microsoft/Novell agreements
The ODF Alliance issued this statement this afternoon: Alliance Statement On Microsoft/Novell Collaboration Regarding Document Format Compatibility Washington, DC, November 3, 2006 � The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated to improving … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source
Tagged Linux, Microsoft, Novell, ODF, ODF Alliance
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links for 2006-10-26
Linux and Open Source Novell announces PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux “Wouldn’t it be great to just get a PC with Linux already installed and ready to go? Novell thinks that’s a grand idea too” (tags: novell linux suse) Ellison … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, News, Open Source
Tagged Linux, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, WordPress
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From Ubuntu to OpenSUSE and back again
I have Ubuntu running in dual boot mode on two different machines. Given all the news with Novell yesterday and the recent praise for OpenSUSE 10, I decided that I would test install OpenSUSE 10.1 on one of the machines. … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-23
Blogging and Social Bookmarking Add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to Blog Posts Code for adding social bookmarking links to your WordPress blogs. (tags: blogging wordpress) Digg, Furl, del.icio.us posting in PHP and Javascript (tags: blogging php) Changing of … Continue reading
