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Novell follows Red Hat with Xen announcement
News Novell's top rival, Red Hat, is incorporating Xen into its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, due by the end of the year. Like Red Hat, Novell plans a partnership with XenSource, a start-up that's commercialising Xen, but Steiner declined to share details.
[March 23, 2006, 8:00]
Novell and Red Hat spat over Xen
News At Novell's Sydney, Australia, office on Thursday, Rex responded to claims by Linux competitor Red Hat that Xen was not stable enough to be deployed in enterprise environments. Red Hat only had to look at Novell's launch of its new server for...
[August 14, 2006, 9:25]
Novell guns for Red Hat
Blog Novell is trying to take business from the market leader in Linux servers, Red Hat - with a switchover campaign. Patches for proprietary software are commercial products, just like the software they patch; but there's nothing at all to stop Novell...
[November 12, 2008, 18:36]
Novell stickers it to Red Hat
Blog Having pointed out the cheeky banner that Novell hung outside rival Red Hat's annual conference in Boston, I later found out from Red Hat's chief executive Jim Whitehurst that Novell also put a "big sticker" on the floor outside too but Red Hat...
[June 19, 2008, 21:26]
Red Hat and Novell hit with Linux patent suit
News Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell have been sued for patent infringement — but not by Microsoft. IP Innovation LLC filed the claim, in Texas, that Linux operating systems from both Red Hat and Novell have infringed US patent number 5,072,412 for a...
[October 12, 2007, 17:53]
Red Hat adopts Novell's code
News Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has adopted an email enhancement that its rival Novell recently released as open-source software. In May, Linux convert Novell shared the source code of the previously proprietary Exchange...
[July 23, 2004, 9:20]
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog It smacks slightly of the kind of release you'd expect from the Novell/MS tie-up but it's unlikely that Red Hat would go that far - not without losing a chunk of its management, customers and support base.
[February 16, 2009, 16:14]
More on Novell's cheeky tricks at Red Hat show...
Blog Anyway, rival Novell wasn't going to let Red Hat have things all its own way, and as I pointed out in an earlier post, has hung a massive banner extolling the virtues of Suse Linux right outside the main entrance to the Red Hat show.
[June 18, 2008, 22:23]
Red Hat and Novell hit with Linux patent suit
Talkback Might be interesting to know who is paying the "two former Microsoft employees". Would not be surprised to learn they are still on M$'s payroll.
[October 15, 2007, 19:08]
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog Comment My headline was a bit of a tease and having met several of the managers at Red Hat - I am pretty certain that they would never agree to the same terms that Novell accepted from MS. But the language of this release doesn't quite come across as...
[February 17, 2009, 7:32]
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog Comment This is very different to the Microsoft-Novell play. It seems that Microsoft has had to do this deal because it believed that it would otherwise be in a less competitive position within the virtualisation marketplace; this goes to show you the...
[February 17, 2009, 7:59]
Is Red Hat threatening to do a Novell with latest virtualisation move?
Blog Comment This is a VERY different deal to what Novel did, and is a total kick in the teeth for them. RedHat have actually given away nothing, and made no compromises. No patent deal, no NDAs. This could get very interesting.
[February 17, 2009, 12:26]
Get top-ranked Novell support for Red Hat when you switch
White Papers Novell provides unparalleled support, tools, and reports to help you understand your Linux environment. If Linux is going to power your mission-critical applications, you'd better have the best support known to business.
[October 8, 2009, 11:25]
Get top-ranked Novell support for Red Hat at 50% less
White Papers When you standardize on a single Linux platform with SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell, you're getting the world's most interoperable Linux, and the only one fully supported by both Novell and Microsoft.
[October 8, 2009, 11:24]
Unrivaled support from Novell, now available for Red Hat
White Papers Novell provides unparalleled support, tools, and reports to help you understand your Linux environment. If Linux is going to power your mission-critical applications, you'd better have the best support known to business.
[October 8, 2009, 11:25]
More interoperability, plus 3 years Red Hat support, only from Novell
White Papers With one, unified management tool for both Linux and Windows, your mixed environments become completely interoperable, dramatically more efficient, and you can recognize dramatic cost savings. Learn how you can start saving today!
[October 8, 2009, 11:25]
Red Hat support, patches, updates with the interoperability of Novell
White Papers With one, unified management tool for both Linux and Windows, your mixed environments become completely interoperable, dramatically more efficient, and you can recognize dramatic cost savings. Learn how you can start saving today!
[October 8, 2009, 11:25]
Microsoft takes swipe at Linux vendors' legal story
News Microsoft has criticised the IP indemnification offered by Novell, Red Hat, HP and IBM -- the main vendors of the Linux operating system. Microsoft is doing more to stand behind its products with meaningful indemnification than the leading...
[November 5, 2004, 13:28]
SuSE seeks developers
News Novell plans to begin opening up development of one of its Linux products to outside programmers in a project called OpenSuSE, a strategy similar to that taken by rival Red Hat, Novell is expected to announce next week.
[August 3, 2005, 8:55]
Novell woos Red Hat developers
News 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. Novell announced earlier this week that its openSuse Build...
[January 25, 2008, 15:45]
