Posts Tagged ‘Novell’
Novell takeover: the analysts’ views
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 23 November 2010 at 02:26:00 End of an era, as tech giant is sold to Attachmate The news that Novell is to be sold off as an independent company took Silicon Valley by surprise. There is still doubt as to the exact terms of the deal with Attachmate , but V3.co.uk spoke to a number of analysts to get their views of what’s in store for Novell …
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Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion
Novell cedes its independence after years of struggle to find a new direction. A Microsoft-led group buying 882 Novell patents throws in nearly a quarter of the purchase price.
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Novell upgrades Zenworks PC management features
Novell has released a new version of its Zenworks PC management suite, consolidating separate applications through a new unified administrative console, and adding a range of features including awareness of the end user’s identity and location.
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Novell Marketing Video for Linux playing on the popular Mac vs PC videos. What is Linux? See: en.wikipedia.org Some points for Linux off the top of my head: – Free (as in speech). I have the freedom to tweak the system as I wish. – DRM Free – Superior method of software updates, installation – Solid stability (servers I run have been up for 1+yrs, my desktop 1+ month) – Can scale down to very old/obscure hardware (I have a Linux file server running an old 266, 24MB ram – Virtually Spyware/Virus free – Variety of system tools not available in Windows. Extensive programming interface. – Very cool eye-candy ahead of other Operating systems. Youtube search “compiz”, see the upcoming KDE, see the current version of Gnome. – I know exactly what my computer is doing. Can’t say the same thing with Windows, OS X – Although I agree gaming is lacking, I personally don’t game on PC but what I do see is the amazing benefit of being able to have access to the thousands of OSS packages out there. – Luxury of using technology backed up by contributions and usage by companies such as IBM, HP, Sun, Google, many governments, military orgs, NASA, universities, super computer research. Outside the desktop Windows presence is not the greatest. – Constant updates to all my software. You can choose to run cutting edge or run stable. – Ability to decide what to install and what not to (can’t say the same thing about XP) – Freedom of not depending on one single vendor. I know my needs will not be …
Novell Now Offers SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11 on Amazon Web Services
Novell today announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) will offer hourly based pricing and support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) of all sizes will have the ability to run SUSE …
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Novell and Tencent Establish Joint Cloud Computing Laboratory in China
BEIJING, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell and Tencent today announced the establishment of a research laboratory in Shenzhen, China to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. Tencent, China’s largest Internet service portal with more than 480 million active users, is adopting SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server and PlateSpin® Orchestrate as its auto-deployment …
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VMware and Novell expand strategic partnership
VMware and Novell have announced an expansion to their partnership to standardize its virtual appliance-based product offerings on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
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Microsoft and Novell Collaborate to Deliver Hybrid Options for High-Performance Computing
Latest initiative targets High-Performance Computing, empowering customers to balance server workloads using both SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server for greater IT efficiency. High-performance computing (HPC) continues …
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Utah jury decides Unix battle in favor of Novell
Novell Inc. never sold ownership rights to Unix computer software code when it allowed another company to take over the servicing of the venerable server operating system used by large corporations, a jury in Utah decided Tuesday.
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