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Novell woos Linux developers
News Novell plans to release tools early this year to let outside programmers help with OpenSuSE, the company said on Thursday. The move closely parallels the way Red Hat has created Fedora. The company announced the OpenSuSE project in August as a way...
[January 6, 2006, 7:50]
Linspire scraps fees on download service
News That's where Linux leader Red Hat has made its mark and number two Novell is trying to make gains. But Linspire, along with Xandros, Mandriva, Canonical, Novell and others, is trying to make a business out of Linux on desktop computers as well.
[August 31, 2006, 8:55]
Business Intelligence provider warms to Linux
News The company said on Tuesday that its WebFOCUS product has received certification for Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Its products run on multiple versions of SuSE and Red Hat Linux. Both vendors have only made their applications available on...
[February 17, 2005, 16:30]
Microsoft appoints Linux interoperability chief
News Microsoft has appointed a director to lead its interoperability efforts with Novell. Through a jointly run Interoperability Lab, they intend to make Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 run on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
[June 11, 2007, 14:32]
ODF Summit joins open source activists
News Red Hat, Adobe, Computer Associates, Corel, Nokia, Intel and Linux e-mail company Scalix, in addition to Oracle, Novell and Google. Novell. Other technology providers, including Novell and IBM, have already voiced their support for
[November 10, 2005, 14:35]
Open-source firm accredited for schools
News Open-source company Novell did not gain accreditation, although it was shortlisted. Novell had not responded to requests for comment at the time of writing. It's well known that GCHQ uses open source, particularly Red Hat Linux.
[September 24, 2008, 14:26]
KDE brings Safari improvements to Linux
News KDE-alternative Gnome received a boost last year with Novell's acquisition of Ximian, which makes a Gnome-based user environment, and the SuSE Linux operating system. Novell recently updated Ximian Desktop 2, adding compatibility with SuSE Linux...
[February 5, 2004, 10:35]
Red Hat says Enterprise Linux 5.2 is greener
News Novell recently previewed version 11 of its Suse Linux Enterprise Server, and delivered a second service pack to version 10 of the operating system this week. Linux vendor Red Hat has updated its enterprise Linux version with features for big...
[May 23, 2008, 13:20]
French education authorities migrate to Linux
News The public body's decision to migrate to Red Hat Linux follows the announcement last week that Red Hat's rival Novell is in the process of migrating 40 percent of Germany's university students and thousands of university staff to its Suse Linux...
[September 5, 2007, 16:58]
Red Hat expands open source stack
News Open source collaboration toolset Open-Xchange Server 5, which until now was only available on Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, will now be supported on Red Hat Enterprise Server 4. Linux distributor Red Hat bulked up its open source...
[July 15, 2005, 13:40]
Mandriva aims for the enterprise
News More recently it has faced increased competition with Suse Linux's acquisition by Novell and Red Hat's continuing growth, not to mention a new version of Windows coming on the horizon. How does all this compare with what competitors such as Red Hat...
[September 20, 2006, 14:00]
StarOffice 8 set to shine
News OpenOffice ships with Linux versions from Red Hat and Novell, the top sellers of the open source operating system, and is also widely used outside of the Linux realm. Sun plans to release its next version of StarOffice in July, bringing new...
[May 3, 2005, 9:10]
Your questions for Red Hat?
Blog It has been an interesting year for Red Hat - to say the least - with not only Novell's tie-up with Microsoft piling on the pressure but Oracle opting to release its own version of Red Hat's Linux distro for use with its database apps.
[May 4, 2007, 14:40]
The hidden success of open source (and GPLv3)
Blog The posting is more than just the usual "you don't know how well open source is doing" message from a Red Hat or a Novell. There are more lines of open source code out there, better annotated and more carefully licensed, than you might think.
[December 12, 2008, 10:20]
Red Hat readies directory server for release
News Red Hat plans to release a directory server later this month — a move that further pits the open source software developer against Microsoft, Novell and Sun. With the release, Red Hat is expanding its product set, giving the company more ammunition...
[June 3, 2005, 15:00]
Red Hat testing developer tool
News Red Hat is competing with Novell, Microsoft, Sun and others for the attention of programmers and software companies. Top Linux seller Red Hat has begun public testing of software that it hopes will make it easier for programmers to write software...
[January 26, 2005, 8:30]
Photos: Ubuntu 7.10 review
Reviews Linux leaders Red Hat and Novell have already adopted the technology, but Ubuntu developers were more cautious. A number of people have griped about Ubuntu's default brown colour-scheme, but it's still there with version 7.10.
[October 18, 2007, 8:36]
The GPL keeps the bastards honest
Talkback This makes it available to Red Hat (and Ubuntu and Novell and Sun and IBM etc. Red Hat can grow as much as they are able to and as much as the market will let them. But it does not allow Red Hat (and Ubuntu etc) to avoid the copyleft licencing...
[January 18, 2009, 16:24]
IBM patent sparks open source code rewrite
Talkback In the end, it may be that the open source solution providers like Red Hat and Novell, etc.will have to collect royalties as well as collecting support fees. It’s going to get harder, not easier as “open source” moves into newer technology areas...
[April 14, 2005, 12:54]
What's Lenovo's Linux stance?
Blog We will continue to certify Novell and Red Hat Linux on our ThinkPad notebooks and ThinkCentre desktops. A fascinating story here from the Desktop Linux website, which appears to suggest that Lenovo has stopped offering its ThinkPad, IdeaPad...
[September 9, 2008, 15:35]
