Novell and Microsoft swing both ways
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Bidirectional virtualisation is virtually there The possibilities for recursive virtualisation have just increased, with Novell and Intel announcing that you can now run Windows unmodified on Novell's SUSE Linux, via Xen and an Intel VT-capable processor, while Microsoft says an upcoming service pack will let its Virtual Server run SUSE Linux as a virtualised guest.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Cross-platform virtualization is top of the list of projects that a new joint development lab operated by Microsoft and Novell will work on, executives said. The companies expect to announce the opening of the lab on Wednesday. They firstÂ announcedÂ plans for the joint labÂ back in November 2006, when they formed a controversialÂ patent-licensing and interoperability agreement. The companies have already begun to work together on several interoperability projects, including one that will ensure that Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 will run well on Suse Linux Enterprise Server and that Suse Linux will run on Server 2008 in virtualized environments. The capability, however, won't be available until after Microsoft ships the server next year and then releases its virtualization capability within 180 days after that. The new lab is located in Cambridge, Mass., and is currently is staffed by two directors and five test engineers. The companies hope to hire three more by the end of the year. Engineers from both companies can remotely access resources in the lab and contribute to the work there, said Suzanne Forsberg, the lab's co-director for Novell. She shares director duties with Tom Hanrahan, director of Linux interoperability at Microsoft. In addition to the virtualization project, the engineers will also work on document format translator capabilities that will allow sharing between various document standards such as open XML and OpenOffice. The goal of the original agreement between Microsoft and Novell was to ensure that operating systems from the companies work better in environments where they co-exist. The lab will have 80 servers so that engineers can test how their developments will operate in an environment similar to an enterprise data center, Hanrahan said. XandrosÂ andÂ LinspireÂ have also struck partnerships with Microsoft, similar to the deal with Novell. Red Hat, however, and others Linux vendors, have said theyÂ aren't interested in partnering with Microsoft.
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Or Celebrity Deathmatch? Comment Microsoft and Novell have recently announced a set of agreements to build, market, and support a series of new solutions to make their products work better together.â¦
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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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TechWeb - Customers are more interested in interoperability and virtualization than patent protection and intellectual property issues, despite the stir Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is creating in the open source community, says Novell.
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When I first saw rumblings in the trade press about Novell&#39;s new Novell Linux Desktop (NLD) distribution, I was confused at best.
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Desktop 9 includes Novell&#39;s edition of OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, Evolution software for collaborating with Windows, and Zenworks Linux Management.
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Yesterday, Microsoft and Novell announced they were moving in together - at least insofar as their joint development work was concerned, into a modest 2,500 square-foot laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. "The first priority for the lab team will be to ensure interoperability between Microsoft and Novell virtualization technologies," reads yesterday's statement from Microsoft.
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Microsoft announced on Tuesday a program that will pay some transition costs for companies that want to move from Novell&#39;s NetWare operating system onto servers running Windows.
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Novell this week spruced up a version of its Linux desktop aimed squarely at enterprise users.
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Following through on the company's groundbreaking deal with Microsoft made one month ago, Novell has announced that its version of the OpenOffice.org software suite will support Microsoft's Office Open XML format.
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Microsoft has introduced a raft of migration tools designed to persuade Novell&#39;s NetWare customers to defect to Windows. The move, which comes less than a week after Redmond handed over half a billion dollars
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&quot;Novell is focusing its enterprise desktop efforts on Linux deployments where users can gain the most benefit.&quot; - Jack Messman, Novell&#39;s chairman and CEO.
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Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. announced the opening of an "interoperability lab" in Cambridge. At the 2,500-square-foot facility, a priority of a lab team made up of Microsoft and Novell engineers will be to ensure interoperability between Microsoft and Novell virtualization technologies, the companies said. Plans for the lab were revealed last fall as part of a collaboration agreement between ...
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NOVEMBER 15, 2004  - Novell Inc. last week began shipping a desktop version of Linux that is designed for business users and comes with a bundled set of open-source applications as well as technical support, training and consulting options.
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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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Stats show unanimous support for MS deal A jointly sponsored Microsoft and Novell survey purporting strong customer support for the companiesâ controversial alliance looks like back firing on Novell.â¦