Microsoft fires broadside at Novell Netware
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What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away. Barely a week after settling an anti-trust suit with Novell over unfair practices designed to drive Netware out of the Enterprise and a few days since Novell slapped
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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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Microsoft announced today that they were rolling out a new set of tools under the âMid-Market Netware Migration Programâ banner, aimed at convincing existing NetWare clients to move to Windows Server 2003 instead of Linux.
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Novell has begun a widely available trial of its Open Enterprise Server, software that combines tools from the company&#39;s proprietary NetWare with the open-source SuSE Linux operating system.
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Novell has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, charging that the software giant thwarted sales of its WordPerfect software by withholding technical information and by making the Windows OS inhospitable to the application.
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Novell (Quote, Chart) announced today that it was moving up the timetable by 10 months on its new Open Enterprise Server (OES). The new server, due out in February, will include Novell&#39;s NetWare operating
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Novell Inc. on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., accusing the software giant of unfairly eliminating competition for office productivity applications during the time Novell owned the WordPerfect word processing application and the Quattro Pro spreadsheet application.
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Novell has spent years battling Microsoft. Maybe this time it will work.
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Novell Inc. sued Microsoft Corp.  MSFT.O on Friday, claiming that the world's largest software  maker used its Windows monopoly to hurt sales of the  WordPerfect processing program, which the smaller rival owned  briefly a decade ago.
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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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After playing nice with one another earlier this week when they announced a $536 million legal settlement, Novell and Microsoft on Friday were back attacking one another again.
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With CEO Steve Ballmer as the point man, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has taken the offensive in its ongoing confrontation with Linux and the open-source community.
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The Free Software Foundation is  reviewing Novell Inc.'s  right to sell new versions of  Linux operating system software after the open-source community  criticized Novell for teaming up with Microsoft Corp.
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Microsoft's attempt to win over new users with a cut-down version of Windows has come in for strong criticism.
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Microsoft this week reached legal and financial settlements with two of its most vocal antitrust critics -- Novell and the Computer &amp; Communications Industry Association.
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Novell launches Web site to defend open-source software.
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Software maker Novell filed a lawsuit late last week, re-igniting a legal feud between itself and rival Microsoft, alleging unfair business practices.