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Microsoft forks out £50m to extend Novell Linux pact
News The pact between Microsoft and Novell was announced in November 2006. Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems, Microsoft announced on Wednesday.
[August 20, 2008, 16:32]
Red Hat shares jump on Dell pact
News The worldwide service and support pact gives Dell customers a combination of free and discounted services and support. Shares of Red Hat took off Monday after the company said it extended a strategic alliance with Dell Computer.
[December 6, 1999, 16:59]
EU pact criminalising security research?
News The pact could be signed as early as December. Meet the world's newest class of persecuted artists: computer hackers. European Union nations, and perhaps even the United States, are about to make nearly any form of hacking -- even security research...
[October 26, 2000, 8:56]
Yahoo and BT in Click! pact
News Telecoms behemoth BT has spurned its own portal LineOne and signed a pact with Yahoo! Europe in a deal that aims to woo Net newcomers with a no-contract, pay-as-you-go package. Yahoo! Click, which will be available on the Yahoo!
[November 5, 1998, 16:35]
A Year Ago: RealNetworks soars on Lotus distribution pact
News RealNetworks also recently inked a technology pact with Intel. RealNetworks rose 32 percent, up 8 3/8 to 35 3/4 today after the company said that IBM/Lotus unit will distribute RealNetworks' G2 streaming technology with its Domino and Notes products.
[October 13, 1999, 7:00]
RealNetworks signs online music pact
News In a widely anticipated move, RealNetworks on Monday formed a pact with media giants AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann and EMI Group to bring about a new music subscription service online, dubbed MusicNet.
[April 2, 2001, 13:17]
Microsoft and Qwest ink US DSL pact
News Under a five-year pact, Microsoft and Qwest will bring together the software maker's MSN Internet access, content and services with the phone giant's high-speed Internet network and communications services for consumers in Qwest's 14-state region.
[April 26, 2001, 14:53]
US Report: RealNetworks soars on Lotus distribution pact
News RealNetworks also recently inked a technology pact with Intel. The company makes the G2 technology that allows Internet users to listen and watch audio and video through the Internet in real-time without downloading information.
[October 12, 1998, 16:25]
News Burst: Network Solutions in Netscape pact
News Network Solutions recently signed a similar pact with Yahoo! Inc. Financial terms were not released.
[December 18, 1998, 5:52]
EU seeks overhaul of global IT trade pact
News The European Commission has proposed a revision of the Information Technology Agreement, a trade pact that for the past decade has helped keep down prices for IT-related goods across the world. The pact involved the elimination of international...
[September 16, 2008, 17:27]
Sun makes $2bn pact with Microsoft
News Broad pact with Microsoft Under the 10-year pact with Microsoft, the software company will pay Sun $700m to resolve antitrust issues and $900m to resolve patent issues, the companies said. Sun Microsystems announced on Friday that it has moved to a...
[April 2, 2004, 15:20]
GPLv3 may threaten Microsoft-Novell pact
News Also, according to the statement, certain software programs are not covered in the Microsoft-Novell pact, opening the door for Microsoft to pursue patent litigation. Novell is concerned that Microsoft could stop selling Suse Linux coupons if the...
[May 29, 2007, 8:49]
Novell to share details of Microsoft pact
News Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that has been delayed by a stock option investigation. Under the pact, Microsoft agreed to sell coupons entitling customers to use Novell's Suse Linux...
[May 24, 2007, 10:45]
VeriSign, IBM strike security pact
News Terms of the multi-year pact, which also covering joint marketing and technology efforts, were not disclosed. As part of the pact, IBM will also provide server systems technology to VeriSign to host the duo's new entitlements service.
[January 22, 2002, 11:15]
Just how successful is the MS/Novell pact?
Blog Comment I find it bizarre that you would expect a global organisation to roll out new software to all users in all countries more-or-less simultaneously. Walmart is a big enough company that its various divisions may have worthwhile business reasons for...
[January 29, 2007, 14:11]
Sun-Microsoft pact brings single sign-on closer to reality
Talkback The only thing that's going to work are true industry standards that are royalty and (commercial) license free with no strings attached whatsoever. In short, completely open standards rather then exclusive ones.
[May 16, 2005, 22:02]
Microsoft and Qualcomm form smartphone pact
Talkback Sigh, Qualcomm has much to learn still. So far history shows that dealing with Microsoft is usually a one-way street event. And end-users consumers troubles usually aren't part of the final decision making process.
[May 6, 2006, 23:32]
Microsoft and Samsung sign patent pact
News As part of an ongoing effort to secure more patent cross-licensing deals, Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has signed a pact with Korea's Samsung Electronics. As with Microsoft's recent deal with Fuji Xerox, the software maker specifically notes...
[April 19, 2007, 9:58]
Java creator questions Sun/Microsoft pact
News The father of Java, James Gosling, has questioned the technical relationship between Sun and Microsoft in light of the antitrust demands of the European Union on the world's biggest software maker. At an event in Sydney yesterday the creator of the...
[February 3, 2005, 11:10]
IBM broadens Turbolinux software pact
News Turbolinux has been selling IBM's DB2 database software but now will be allowed to sell several other IBM software packages, said Scott Handy, director of Linux solutions marketing at IBM. We did make the entire portfolio available [though IBM hasn...
[January 10, 2001, 8:16]
