Microsoft: Novell deal a milestone despite squabbles
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Landmark deal could still bring together open-source and commercial software business models, says Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith.
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Novell has spent years battling Microsoft. Maybe this time it will work.
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Even though its appeal is ongoing, the software giant hopes to make a deal.
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Novell Inc. of Waltham is getting a half-billion-dollar check from Microsoft Corp. to settle an antitrust case that&#39;s never been filed.
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Microsoft signed a rare deal with an  open source software group on Thursday, taking a step towards  meeting sanctions imposed by the European Commission for  antitrust violations.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have wasted little time in demonstrating there is real work being done as part of their recent Linux interoperability pact. Just a month afterÂ the historic deal between the companies, Novell said Monday it will support the proprietary document format in Microsoft Office 2007, Open XML, in its open-source version of the OpenOffice productivity suite by the end of January. Novell also will release software that will bidirectionally translate word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between its version of OpenOffice.org's productivity suite and Microsoft Office to the OpenOffice.org project so Open XML can become a part of that open-source project, the company said. However, this does not guarantee that Open XML will be integrated into the OpenOffice.org code, said Justin Steinman, a Novell director of marketing for Linux. "We are going to release the code to the open-source community. Whether it gets integrated or not is up to the community," he said. Novell and Microsoft worked together on the translation project, which will allow users of a new release of OpenOffice due in January to create, save and send files as Open XML documents, Steinman said. Creating interoperability between the OpenOffice and Microsoft Office suites was a goal that was part of the companies' deal, announced Nov. 2, to make Microsoft's proprietary software work more seamlessly with Novell's Suse Linux and other open-source software from the company. The Open XML work will ultimately allow users to more easily share files between Microsoft Office 2007 and OpenOffice, which support different document formats, Steinman said. The native document format in OpenOffice is OpenDocument Format (ODF), an XML-based file format recognized as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Microsoft so far has chosen not to support ODF and instead created its own file format, Open XML, for Office 2007. Microsoft's lack of support for ODF has been controversial, and the company further stirred up concern in the industry that it was trying to promote its own proprietary file format as an industry standard instead of ODF by submitting Open XML to Ecma International in November 2005. Ecma is a standards organization that can fast-track technology standards through the ISO. Ecma plans to vote on whether to approve Open XML for submission to the ISO as an international standard on Dec. 7. Microsoft released Office 2007, which supports Open XML, last week to business customers. The suite is expected to be widely available to consumers in retail outlets on Jan. 30.
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Fresh off a stinging round of criticism at the Open Source Business Conference for its licensing deal with Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc. made an effort to change the discussion Wednesday, announcing a deal with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to reform patents worldwide.
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A major milestone approaches on Microsoft's document standards gambit but participants say that a final resolution won't happen any time soon.
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Microsoft announced settlements Monday with rival Novell Inc. for $536 million and with a Washington-based trade organization that had aggressively backed the European Union's landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.
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WHAT MICROSOFT DID: Paid $536 million cash to rival Novell Inc. to settle potential antitrust complaints over Microsoft&#39;s alleged actions toward Novell&#39;s Netware operating system, which competes with Windows software.
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The ground-breaking legal settlement and technology sharing deal between Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc will not diminish competition between the two adversaries.
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Microsoft settled with Novell for $536 million. Novell also intends to file a new suit againt Microsoft regrading word-processing software.
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Novell's Linux business has soared 243% since last November, when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft, a company executive told a panel.
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As software disputes go, Novell&#39;s decade-long antitrust claim against Microsoft was particularly drawn out. That made the $536 million payoff announced Monday especially sweet.
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Just days after settling one anti-trust lawsuit with Microsoft, Novell filed another one. According to a Novell (down $0.
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As it said it would, Novell (NOVL:Nasdaq - news - research) filed a federal lawsuit in Utah alleging that Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq - news - research) tried to eliminate competition in the office productivity applications market when Novell owned the
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The European Commission says it will go forward with its antitrust case against Microsoft, despite the software giant&#39;s recent settlements, which led to Novell and the Computer and Communications