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Video: Novell Reveals Green Data-centre Plans
News At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian discusses the company's plan to reduce power consumption by developing more environment-friendly technologies inside the data centre.
[August 9, 2007, 16:11]
Video: Novell Touts Suse Linux For Desktop Users
News At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian discusses PC customers' increasing adoption and support of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop.
[August 9, 2007, 16:48]
Novell's User Conference Underway In Utah
Blog I am over here listening to the keynote by Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian who has managed to stay clear of saying anything interesting so far. Former CEO Jack Messman was always good for some anti-Microsoft banter but this is Hovsepian seems...
[March 17, 2008, 14:37]
Microsoft And Novell Clash Over Patents
News Posting an open letter on his company's website, Novell's chief executive Ron Hovsepian strongly refuted Ballmer's claims. Hovsepian said that Novell did not agree that it is infringing Microsoft patents.
[November 21, 2006, 12:49]
Novell Slashes Jobs In Restructuring
News The DNA of the company has changed in my very short tenure," Hovsepian said in an interview. Hovsepian, who joined Novell in 2003 and was promoted to president and chief operating officer on Tuesday. Hovsepian said.
[November 3, 2005, 10:40]
Novell: Putting The FOSS In Fossa
News I think Ron [chief executive Ron Hovsepian] brings terrific customer perspective, and under his leaderhsip we have made the mixed-source message much more explicit. To be fair, Microsoft has played its part in keeping Novell down, with launches...
[March 24, 2008, 8:00]
New Boss Has Six Months To Make Novell Work
News Ron Hovsepian, the new chief executive at Novell, will have to improve the company's sales in the next six months or face the same fate as predecessor Jack Messman, according to analysts. Everyone knew that Hovsepian was going to become CEO," says...
[June 23, 2006, 16:55]
Novell Chief: We Helped Microsoft Be More Open
News Unsurprisingly, Novell's chief executive, Ron Hovsepian, does not see his company as desperate or a traitor to the open-source community, which it bought into with its 2003 acquisition of Suse Linux. Rather, Hovsepian believes Novell is a brave...
[March 19, 2008, 14:21]
Microsoft Paying $308m For Novell Deal
News Microsoft will pay Novell $240m for 350,000 coupons — 70,000 per year — entitling customers to support and maintenance for Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian said on Tuesday.
[November 8, 2006, 9:03]
Pictures: Downtime At Novell Brainshare
Blog The 5000 attendees have plenty of information to absorb with the hundreds of tutorials and seminars - not to mention keynote sessions from Novell’s management such as chief executive Ron Hovsepian (pictured below).
[March 17, 2008, 22:55]
A Very Well Written Text
Talkback Looking at the picture of Ballmer and Ron Hovsepian shaking hands I get the feeling that one of them has made it, and the other is thinking about his retirement having not made it economically yet. "while Novell is paying a royalty to Microsoft" I...
[November 6, 2006, 22:18]
Novell Buys Into Collaboration
Blog The acquisition of SiteScape fits squarely into the corporate strategy we have laid out," said CEO Ron Hovsepian in a press release. Coillaboration is a big part of open source (making any software is collaborative, but in open source the...
[February 18, 2008, 16:49]
Novell Loses More Linux Executives
News Novell is in the midst of significant executive changes, including the appointment of Jeffrey Jaffe as chief technology officer of the overall company and Ron Hovsepian, chief operating officer and heir apparent to Chief Executive Jack Messman.
[March 31, 2006, 9:05]
Novell Takes Xen Path To Linux Success
News It argued that its strong customer relationships and US salesforce would propel Suse, but the product continues to lag behind Red Hat's significantly, and Novell's board replaced former Chief Executive Jack Messman with Ron Hovsepian in June.
[July 17, 2006, 17:25]
Red Hat Rains On Xen Parade
News Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian predicted in April that Linux desktops would start taking off in mainstream markets in the next 12 to 18 months. A senior Red Hat executive on Monday maintained the open source Xen virtualisation environment was...
[July 31, 2006, 13:00]
Open Source Stirs Up Trouble For Novell
News Meanwhile Novell's chief executive Ron Hovsepian was upbeat about his company's place in the controversy. Richard Stallman may not have been at Novell's BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, but with some help from his friend Bruce Perens...
[March 21, 2007, 16:41]
Red Hat Says No To Consumer Linux Desktop
News The market for the desktop for the next three to five years is mainly enterprise-related," Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian said in an interview quoted on PC World.com. Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop...
[April 18, 2008, 15:46]
Novell Pushes Agile Infrastructure Vision
News I don't see [Fossa] as something that is five years out; I see it as being much closer," said Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian. Novell has kicked off its annual user conference by announcing ambitious plans to instigate what it claims is "the...
[March 18, 2008, 9:55]
Microsoft And Novell Flesh Out Technical Deal
News Novell chief executive Ron Hovsepian took issue with that in an open letter in November 2006. Microsoft and Novell on Monday fleshed out the technical aspects of their corporate partnership, saying that the two firms are committed to optimising...
[February 13, 2007, 8:13]
Novell Vows To Fight Vista Uptake
News We're excited by the muted reaction to Vista," Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and chief executive, told the media at a meeting in Sydney. It was not a deal that Novell had to make," Hovsepian said. We're going to attack [Microsoft] vigorously and...
[February 15, 2007, 7:33]
