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- Novell comes clean on Ximian and SCO
- Novell comes clean on Ximian and SCOChris Stone claims that Novell is "changing its stripes" to be "more partner-friendly, developer-friendly and now Linux- and open source-friendly." He talks exclusively with Dan Farber in a Face to Face interview about acquiring open-source developer Ximian and the latest twists in SCO's battle...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Ximian, SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc.
- Videos 2003-08-06
- Novell CEO touts Ximian buy
- Novell CEO touts Ximian buyAt LinuxWorld in San Francisco, Novell CEO Jack Messman discusses how this week's acquisition of Ximian will round out his company's open-source cross-platform offerings.
- Tags: Ximian, Novell Inc.
- Videos 2003-08-06
- Will Ximian's Mono challenge .Net?
- Will Ximian's Mono challenge .Net?At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore., ZDNet's David Berlind talks with chief technical officer and founder of Ximian, Miguel de Icaza, about the upcoming release of Mono, an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net development framework.
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Ximian, Mono, Microsoft .NET
- Videos 2003-07-11
- Ximian evolves at LinuxWorld
- Ximian evolves at LinuxWorldAt the LinuxWorld Expo in New York, ZDNet's David Berlind talks with Ximian's David Patrick about the company's Evolution software program, which enables Linux to work with software from Microsoft and Sun.
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Ximian, LinuxWorld
- Videos 2003-01-23
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- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's VolkswagenSuSE is the best distro going.Especially if your a Windows person looking for a place to start in Open Source. YAST is the very best configuration interface in the Linux world today. No other distro has anything close.If you want to make the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4, YaST, SuSE, Ubuntu, distro, Novell OpenSuse, OpenSUSE 11 RC1, OpenSUSE 11, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen AG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
- 2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to beĀ a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Volkswagen AG, GNOME, Software Update Utility, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Mono project releases first IDE, Mono 2.0 into beta
- Novell's Mono project has delivered its first Integrated Development Environment IDE for Mono as well as a beta version of the next Mono platform. MonoDevelop 1.0, with support for Microsoft's .NET Framework 1.0, is an open source IDE for Linux developers building GNOME and ASP.NET applications....
- Tags: Mono, IDE, Novell Inc., Beta, Development Environment, MonoDevelop 1.0, Mono Project, .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- de Icaza: .NET source code release a non-event for open source world
- Microsoft's release of .NET classes under its shared source license will not benefit the Mono project or any other open source project, maintains Miguel de Icaza, Novell's vice president of engineering. In an e-mail exchange, de Icaza, co-founder of the GNOME desktop, Ximian and the Mono...
- Tags: Mono, Source Code, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- No one has to buy anybody
- No one has to buy anybodyNot taken out of contextAt least, not out of the context of Tim's larger points on the topic, some of which are captured in his commentary. Tim doesn't think standalone open-source companies are the future. I think the opposite, and don't believe that...
- Tags: open source, open source company
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Microsoft's Ballmer steps-up Linux infringement suit rhetoric
- If users of Linux have any concerns about being the target of a Microsoft-sponsored patent infringement suit, then Microsofts CEO Steve Ballmer apparently wants them to know that those concerns are justified.According to ComputerWorld, during a Q&A session that followed the keynote speech he delivered to attendees at a Professional...
- Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Berlind, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Will Sun blow up the Microsoft/Novell deal to Red Hat's benefit?
- This is a Part 2 that goes with this Part 1.While the buzz around the Web 2.0 conference seems to be getting a majority of the technology industrys attention this week, two other issues have been gurgling below the surface that probably deserve to be connected, but havent yet. One...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Microsofts, Novell Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- Developer hearts and minds
- Developer hearts and mindsIdeologically Constrained...It's perfectly understandable with you being an empolyee of Microsoft that you are not capable of seeing this objectively.If people choose to use Windows I say go for it. However when I see what amounts to a huge potential threat to Linux/FOSS as it curently exists...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- The Novell-Microsoft agreement and .NET
- Microsoft and Novell recently signed a cooperative technology deal that will make it easier for Novell's Suse Linux distribution and Microsoft Windows to work together. In unrelated news, Palestinians and Israelis agreed to end their differences and create a new country called "Palestisrael." Yes, the news that Microsoft would agree...
- Tags: .NET 3.0, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Microsoft cozies up to Novell, Zend
- Microsoft's new partnership with Novell may have some people wondering if Microsoft has given up on the server. Not likely, given their success with SQL Server, Exchange, and other back office products. This is further proven by their agreements with Zend on PHP, and earlier with XenSource.Most enterprises are heterogeneous,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, PHP, Novell Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-11-02
- Where Messman failed at Novell
- Where Messman failed at NovellTime will tell the taleNot all of Novell's problems can be thrown at Nessman's feet.Really, Novell acquired a 'gem' in the form of SUSE Linux in late 2003, so the move to put SUSE as the strategic technology centerpiece in place has been no small undertaking....
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, OpenSUSE 10.1, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Novell Inc., SuSE
- Discussion threads 2006-06-22
- GNOME sliding Linux onto business desktops
- GNOME sliding Linux onto business desktopsHere's how stupid I am...I can't get excited about either one to the extent that Linus does. The worst I might be able to say is that Gnome is the product of "Interface Soccer Moms.""Nazi" is right out.I've used a little KDE, used a little...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, GNOME, Linux, desktop, KDE
- Discussion threads 2006-02-21
- You've heard of the 'aha' moment? How about Microsoft and IBM's 'uh oh' moment?
- When I think of Microsoft's grip on the desktop market -- the one that's been so hard to break -- two products come to mind neither of which is Windows. The first is Microsoft Office. Even though there's a version of Microsoft Office for the Mac, the demand...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., calendaring, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- Is Java cooling down?
- That's what this Business Week article says, as Java faces more intense competition from LAMP-style development a software stack for open source web development and .NET. According to the article, a survey by Evans Data Corp. showed Java usage declined to 47.9%, versus 51.4% in Fall of 2002. In contrast,...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Java
- Blog posts 2005-12-14
- SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?
- SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?Blatant piece of FUDI can see the potential for some real fallout over the KDE vs. Gnome issue, but that last paragraph is pure FUD. The author doesn't even know who Novell is planning to tap to replace Mantel...maybe they will bring...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., SuSE, Mantel, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-11-10
- SuSE and Novell: Personality friction or culture war?
- The departure of two high-level SuSE contributors from Novell begs the question of whether this latest twist in the Novellization of SuSE is yet another personality clash, or an outright schism between the community-oriented SuSE heritage and the command-and-fumble corporate Novell culture. If the apparent split in philosophy over...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE
- Blog posts 2005-11-10
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