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- It's over as SCO files for bankruptcy protection
- It's over as SCO files for bankruptcy protectionTrusteeNo trustee in sight (yet.) SCOXQ has petitioned the Court to allow the present management to continue to operate the company without any outside trustee being appointed. This is apparently quite common in Chapter 11 cases; it's only in Chapter 7...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Litigation, His-Name, bankruptcy protection, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., bankruptcy
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- The succession problem and open source
- The history of computing is the history of entrepreneurs. (Pictures from Wikipedia.)Thomas J. Watson. Ken Olsen. Ray Noorda. Steve Jobs. Bill Gates. Michael Dell.Each one had a unique vision for what computing should be. Each implanted that vision into a corporate culture. But all those cultures had enormous trouble after...
- Tags: General, Strategy, management, business models, open source
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- SCO bankruptcy called imminent
- SCO bankruptcy called imminentSo who is represented by Dracula?Is it Microsoft? Or is Abbott & Costello representing Microsoft and Novell, and Linux is Dracula, chasing the bumbling incompetents?Man, you Linux guys are cloudy with your analogies. ;)As far as SCO - good riddance. SCO and its vile leader can...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, irony, bankruptcy, morale, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-09
- From Microsoft to Opensoft? Novell just another hole in the garden wall
- There's a bit of irony in the fact that Novell is the company that Microsoft made its legal pact with yesterday. Novell as a company is a shell of its former self. But there's a bit of Novell history that might make sense for Microsoft to take note of. Back...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Legal, Office 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Time to short RedHat?
- Time to short RedHat?you missed listing Novell as a winneryou missed listing Novell as a winner.The proper question is who will be the loserAnd the answer is anyone who gets in bed with MICROSUCKS. As far as I am concerned this deal drives a stake through the heart of any...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Time to short RedHat?
- Let's get the snark out of the way first, shall we? If Ray Noorda were still alive this would kill him.Microsoft and Novell in a wide-ranging partnership to make Linux and Windows work together? Sure, Oracle is pissed. Yes indeed, the fox is in the henhouse. You have the rooster, the...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., IS IT
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Might Microsoft and Novell make a deal?
- We know that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is slated to announce something at 2 p.m. PST today. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft and Novell will announce some sort of partnership. Microsoft isn't confirming, so far at least. Less than a month after the death of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., JBoss
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Ray Noorda and open source
- Ray Noorda has died. He was 82.Noorda occupied an important niche in computer history. He is remembered as "the father of networked computing."Thats because, under Noorda, Novell became the leader in a new business called networked PCs during the 1980s, before PC operating systems grew to cover networks. He made...
- Tags: Ray Noorda
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Noorda, network computing pioneer, dies at 82
- Noorda, network computing pioneer, dies at 82Thanks for everything RayNTExcellent, now go haunt Bill GatesSome one needs to and Ellison and Jobs are too young.You won't be forgotten!As one of the premier PC companies in the ninties, Novell was instrumental in shaping and propelling the personal computer industry to the...
- Tags: Thin clients, NETWORKING, Directory services, Operating systems, Ray Noorda, network, network computing
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- Unplugged: AMD's Queen of most things commercial Margaret Lewis
- Not ready to give up the pure-64 bit approach to high-volume servers just yet, Intel this week rolled-out the Montecito members of its Itanium family of processors. Amongst other features, one of Montecito's key attributes is its dual core nature. Then, later this month, on July 27th, Intel is...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- Unanswered questions: Bill Gates, programmer?
- Unanswered questions: Bill Gates, programmer?Unanswered questions.....With the way you are trying to justify your comments it sems there is a little bit of Gates envy around!! Isn't opportunism the essence of capitalism? and arent those people who make the opportunities considered to be great businessmen?Winners write historyI have no first...
- Tags: Development tools, Blogging, Desktops, Bill Gates, UnAnswered Questions, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-07-17
- Xerox disappoints Wall St. but CEO Anne Mulcahy's stock looks good
- Xerox disappoints Wall St. but CEO Anne Mulcahy's stock looks goodShe's done a great job, but where's Ray?I agree, but I was a little sad to see Ray Noorda's name missing from the list (maybe I'm just old).
- Tags: Construction, Anne Mulcahy, Wall St., Xerox Corp., wall, stock
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- DiDio drama underscores difficulty tracking open source
- DiDio drama underscores difficulty tracking open sourceIt's more than tracking difficultyI think it may represent a deeper issue. Specifically that the business world hasn't gotten its collective mind around how to deal with Linux. It's one of those challenges to conventional thinking that comes along all to rarely...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, DiDio, open source, drama, DiDio drama
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- Will SCO case make the finish line?
- I suspect most readers of this blog hope the SCO Group gets thumped in its copyright suit with IBM. I'm on your side. But if the case doesn't even make it through the discovery phase, where both sides seek to collect evidence from the other, that might also be bad...
- Tags: SCO Group Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-04-06
- Settlement leaves SCO board intact
- Settlement leaves SCO board intactLOL Shares?????[i] Under the terms of the settlement, Yarro will receive all of Canopy's SCO shares, SCO said.[/i]SCO shares? BAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!What, is Yarro afraid he might run out of toilet paper???Two for one!In one fell sweep, Canopy and the Noorda family have...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., Canopy, Yarro, SCO board, board
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- As the Canopy Turns
- As someone who'd been involved in Utah's high tech industry for a dozen years, I watched the founding and growth of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group with some interest and excitement. Before there were many VCs in Utah, Canopy was there, funding start-ups. I never spoke to Ray about it directly,...
- Tags: Canopy Group
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
- As the Canopy Turns
- As someone who'd been involved in Utah's high tech industry for a dozen years, I watched the founding and growth of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group with some interest and excitement. Before there were many VCs in Utah, Canopy was there, funding start-ups. I never spoke to Ray about it directly,...
- Tags: Canopy Group
- Blog posts 2005-02-10
- Novell vs. WinWord: One key to the kingdom that Microsoft won't let go (and other tales of intrigue)
- Microsoft may have paid $536 million to Novell in one of its many landmark settlements over the last year. But the footnote to that settlement is that the two companies could not find common ground when it came to Novell's allegations that Microsoft's monopolistic behavior is what led to WordPerfect's...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Corel WordPerfect
- Blog posts 2004-11-15
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