A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE
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Wake up little SUSE, Wake up.  No, that's not good enough.  Wake up SUSE customers, wake up.  Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux flourish, let alone survive after Novell's five year deal with Microsoft expires, I suggest we make an alternative five year deal with Microsoft. In this case, our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise.
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The Novell settlement revolved around the potential antitrust litigation related to Novell&#39;s NetWare operating system. Microsoft and Novell reached an agreement that would see Microsoft pay Novell $536 million (US) in cash.
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It is with regret that I urge all FOSS developers to treat anything Novell has contributed to the community as suspect, scrutinize any Novell contributions and purge them as deemed appropriate.  This threat is real, and it is not necessarily contingent upon whether or not Microsoft would actually sue customers for patent infringements.  This is a classic case of posturing.  Novell is leveraging its agreement with Microsoft in a way that harms all other Linux distributions and other FOSS projects. It is actively exploiting its unique position in ways that seem beneficial, but will pose risks to anyone but its own customers (and even their own customers are only protected for the next five years).
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Novell has released details of its landmark partnership with Microsoft.
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sl0wp0is0n writes &quot;Computerworld has published an interview with Microsoft&#39;s chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor. It&#39;s interesting to find out that Microsoft thinks and predicts Novell (SuSE) will be the
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There is a fascinating article on Groklaw called Searching for Openness in Microsoft's OOXML and Finding Contradictions. One of the most relevant comments in the article is "So, they plan to be the only one in the Linux world that can actually interoperate with Microsoft. How do you think they will achieve that? By sharing? On the contrary, they already market themselves as uniquely interoperable, which means they get to interoperate and you don't, unless you are their paying customer."  There is also the Novell comment, "Only Novell has Microsoftâs endorsement as its partner to drive Linux-Windows interoperability."
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Novell Inc. (NOVL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it had reached a settlement with software maker Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.
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Novell and the Computer and Communications Industry Association have agreed to end their participation in the legal case against Microsoft in the European Union.
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Microsoft will offer up to $600 per server (up to a maximum of $15,000) to companies who agree to switch from Novell to Windows servers, it has been revealed.
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(InfoWorld) - Looking to bolster Linux in enterprise environments, Novell is offering its first service pack for Suse Linux Enterprise 10, with capabilities for new quad-core processors. The company also announced Monday commercial availability plans for Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. Service Pack 1 supports quad-core processors in the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron product lines. Also featured are improvements in interoperability and system management, Novell said.Â  "What we further improved was the interoperability with Active Directory for both the server and the desktop," said Holger Dyroff, Novell vice president of Suse Linux Enterprise product management. High-availability storage infrastructure has been updated in the service pack and the platform's audit subsystem has been enriched, Novell said. The storage infrastructure features new versions of the open source Heartbeat high availability software and Oracle Cluster File System. The audit subsystem, which tracks transactions, now is complete. Support for Novell Open Enterprise Server 2, which merges NetWare and Linux, also is featured. Other improvements noted by Novell include: * Expanded OpenOffice.org support, with capabilities for Microsoft Office macros * An updated desktop user experience * A preview of desktop virtualization technology based on the Xen hypervisor * Advances in enterprise integration * Improved security Novell also detailed Suse Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack. This package includes drivers to enable unmodified Windows and Linux guest operating systems to run with near-native performance in virtual environments created with Xen in Suse Linux. Featured are paravirtualization and enterprise-level support for a range of fully virtualized workloads. Customers can run legacy applications on newer hardware. Paravirtualization bolsters communication with the hypervisor when a guest operating system is running on top of a host OS, thus improving performance. Featured in Virtual Machine Driver Pack are drivers for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003. Virtual Machine Driver Pack is due for general availability in July. Drivers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 will be released later this summer. A one-year subscription to Driver Pack costs $299 per physical server for as many as four virtual machines, or $699 per physical server for an unlimited number of virtual machines. Xen drivers for Suse Linux Enterprise Server are available now as part of Suse Linux Enterprise distribution.
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Yesterday, Novell shipped its Linux Desktop 9 product, the software maker&#39;s attempt to unseat Windows on business PCs. Developed with SUSE underpinnings and based on Kernel 2.6, Novell liberally sprinkled
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InfoWorld - Novell has published details of its landmark November 2006&#160;Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft.
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Microsoft has agreed to pay Novell $536 million in cash in order to settle a longstanding antitrust dispute regarding the company's NetWare operating system. The two companies, however, could not reach a resolution regarding Microsoft's alleged predatory tactics against WordPerfect. Meanwhile, Microsoft has made nice with the CCIA to avoid further antitrust complaints and give Redmond more lobbying power.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft on Monday took another big step toward putting most of its legal challenges in the rearview mirror. The world&#39;s largest software maker said it will pay rival software maker Novell a $536
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Firm set to release its first Linux desktop package since acquiring SuSE Linux and Ximian. Will it unseat Microsoft Office?
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SEATTLE/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O said  on Monday it had agreed to settle antitrust lawsuits with  Novell Inc. NOVL.O and an industry trade group, marking the  end of a decade-long antitrust battle.
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Company becomes last of the four major server sellers to fully support Novell's SuSE Linux.