Novell creates new management posts
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Novell, a new entrant into the Linux market, has promoted two executives in a management change that consolidates four business units into two.
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Novell chief information officer (CIO) Debra Anderson was given the task of migrating all of the company&#39;s 6,000 staff from Microsoft Windows to Novell Linux on the desktop.
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(InfoWorld) - Novell Inc.'s former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jack Messman, who was ousted from those positions in June, has quit the company's board of directors a month and a half earlier than had been previously announced. Messman quit Novell's board Monday, a company spokesman confirmed Thursday. In June, Novell said that Messman would remain on its board until Oct. 31. Novell made a brief 8-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday stating that Messman told the board Sept. 8 that he would resign from the board effective Sept. 11. "This was just a personal decision by Jack," the Novell spokesman wrote in an e-mail. "If there had been any substantive disagreement with the board leading to his resignation, we would have had to state that in the SEC filing." Messman, 66, wasÂ booted out of his leadership roles at Novell by his fellow board members in a move they characterized as a way to better position the company to boost its growth. He became Novell CEO when the vendor acquired the consulting company he headed up, Cambridge Technology Partners, in 2001. Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and chief operating officer, added the CEO title to his existing positions, while Thomas Plaskett, a Novell director, became chairman. Novell executives in June stressed that the departures of Messman along with Joseph Tibbetts, the company's chief financial officer, weren't driven by accounting issues or any other improprieties. Late last month,Â Novell revealed that it had embarked upon a voluntary internal review to investigate how the company granted stock options to employees in recent years. Novell also cautioned that its third-quarter fiscal 2006 results should be considered preliminary financials until the company concludes the review in case the findings indicate Novell needs to restate its earnings. On Monday, Novell made a filing to the SEC indicating that it does expect to be late in filing its third-quarter 10-K in the light of the ongoing stock options review. "Based on preliminary findings, the audit committee of Novell's board of directors engaged independent outside legal counsel to conduct the review," Novell said in the filing. Novell added that it's not in a position to predict when the review will be completed. Â
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Novell, seeking a real-time makeover for its collaboration wares, announced that it has acquired SiteScape, the developer of open-source collaboration tools.
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Novell tomorrow will begin shipping Linux Desktop 9, a desktop version of its open-source Linux operating system that's aimed at enterprise users.
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Insight24, the leading business-to-business rich media network, is pleased to showcase Novell's podcast "SUSE Linux Enterprise 10:  AutoBuild and Quality Assurance" on the Insight24 Network.  In this podcast, SUSE Linux Enterprise engineers discuss how to create an enterprise operating system.
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New version allows users to categorize entries and make layout changes more easily.
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New corporate entity and development center
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Dell CEO Michael Dell&#160;plans to announce a series of new products aimed at making life easier for IT managers.The announcement of these products is scheduled to happen during a keynote by Dell at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Nov. 14.&quot;What you&#39;re going to hear Michael talk about ... is some real products and services coming down the pipe here very shortly on how we simplify IT for customers of all sizes,&quot; said Brad Anderson, senior vice president and general manager of Dell&#39;s Business Products Group, during an interview.Among the products and services that Dell plans to announce are a cheaper and simpler virtualization product, new blade servers for large datacenters, and IT support services for small companies that face the same challenges confronted by corporations with large IT departments but don&#39;t have the same resources, Anderson said.The ultimate aim of these products and services is to help reduce the costs companies bear when they purchase new computers or roll out new software applications.&quot;You&#39;ve got to think about how customers procure [IT products like a server], how they deploy it, how they manage it on an ongoing basis, how they dynamically reconfigure it for their changing requirements, and maybe how they retire it,&quot; Anderson said. &quot;How can we really streamline and simplify each step of that lifecycle so the customer invests less of his or her money to go do those things?&quot;This effort to make lives easier for IT managers will start at the manufacturing level, where Dell is offering customers the ability to have PCs and servers shipped with software applications pre-installed and tested, Anderson said.&#160;
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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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Linux and identity management will be Novell&#39;s biggest strengths, according to its chief executive Jack Messman. Messman told delegates at this year&#39;s Novell Brainshare Europe event in Barcelona that the company
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He outlines management and strategy changes for the CRM and service management company.
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When Novell&#39;s Linux desktop arrives at the end of this year it will be stripped down to avoid integration problems and to keep it simple for users.
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JBoss after a series of announcements last month (see JBoss announces&gt;) has made another significant announcement with JBoss jBPM, their first step into business process management.
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NOVELL HAS been playing management musical chairs as it distances itself as a purveyor of NetWare and transforms itself into a flogger of Linux and high end systems.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Novell on Monday used its annual
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Novell last Friday said the release of Open Enterprise Server, a combination of open source and commercial networking platforms, is 10 months ahead of schedule.