Managed Objects
Earlier today we announced that we had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Managed Objects, a market leader in Business Service Management (BSM) solutions.
This acquisition, like our acquisition of PlateSpin earlier this year, is yet another piece in our commitment to provide the best and most interoperable data center management solutions. We [...]
The Customer Agenda
Last week's global economic news was historic from a number of perspectives and predictably there were a number of articles and postings on the impact to the technology industry at large and software companies in particular. One post by Information Week's Serdar Yegulalp viewed the "grim financial times" as a test for commercial vendors [...]
MoreInterop.com
As Novell and Microsoft approach the two year anniversary of our interoperability partnership, it seems appropriate to highlight the joint innovation that's been delivered on behalf of our customer's agenda of making Windows and Linux work well together.
Our partnership has been a lot more than talk and press releases. In fact, our joint investment [...]
Eight is Enough
It's a testament to software legacy when you release the 8th version of a product. It indicates a certain longevity and customer satisfaction and a commitment to innovation. We're proud to celebrate an important milestone this month. Our GroupWise product, known for more than 20 years as the most secure and reliable e-mail [...]
Having it your way
Last February 21 I blogged about Microsoft's announcement on a new set of interoperability principles. In the announcement Microsoft declared a broad-reaching set of changes across both their business and technology practices, all of which were intended to increase the openess of their products and drive greater interoperability. As I said at the [...]
Innovation Communities
Last week the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council hosted its annual spring conference. This year's conference, of which Novell was a proud sponsor, focused on "China, India, and Russia - Our Partners in the New Global Economy. There was an impressive list of speakers led off by Dr. Lawrence Summers. In addition [...]
Making IT Work as One
Creating a powerful and compelling brand. The holy grail of many if not most marketeers - indeed I'd say of most companies. Stating the objective is simple, getting there is not. In a world of commodity phrases and empty promises it takes work and discipline to position one's company in a distinctive, credible, relevant and [...]
All in One
On Wednesday, April 16, Novell announced the SUSE Appliance Program and the beta availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise JeOS (for Just enough Operating System). Both of these announcements are aimed squarely at simplifying the use of Linux and in doing so expanding this already hot market. More importantly, these [...]
New Novell.com
We are all creatures of habit to some extent. Most of us like things as we expect them. Interacting with technology in a predicable and utilitarian manner is one of those items we like just so. Changing one's corporate website is a interesting and risky test of this principle.
A couple of weeks ago [...]
The Tradition Continues
Over five thousand people from 58 countries will arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah next Sunday, March 16th for the annual Novell tradition known as Brainshare. Brainshare, Novell's annual user conference, has been going on for over 20 years and for many in the IT industry it's their annual pilgrimage for learning new things, [...]
Fat Free French Fries
"If French fries were fat free, would you still like them?"
I've got to admit country music has some of the best lines. I heard this one on the way home last night and it got me thinking about marketing. Truth is I was probably thinking about marketing well before this line but [...]
The Circle of Life(cycle Management)
Earlier today, Novell announced its intention to acquire data center management leader PlateSpin. PlateSpin is a Toronto based technology company who is singularly focused on providing the most advanced software designed to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise, both in the physical and virtual environment. This is an extremely important [...]
Microsoft Expands Interoperability
Earlier today Microsoft made an announcement on a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices intended to increase the openness of its products and driver greater interoperability, opportunity and choice across the IT community of developers, partners, customers, and yes competitors. I've no doubt much will be written about Microsoft's "true" [...]
Open Collaboration
Today we furthered our commitment to secure, reliable and OPEN enterprise collaboration solutions by acquiring SiteScape, a leading provider of team workspace, enterprise social networking and real-time collaboration technology. You may recall [...]
Welcome Aboard Zonker!
Today we welcome aboard Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier as openSUSE Community Manager.
By way of quick reminder, the openSUSE project is a worldwide community program sponsored by Novell with the primary mission to promote the use of Linux everywhere. The openSUSE project also forms the base of Novell's award winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
While I'm not [...]
Lenovo and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop - Delivered to your Door
Last August 6, we announced with Lenovo an agreement to provide preloaded SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on select Lenovo Thinkpad notebook PCs - with complete support from Lenovo and Novell. Today, Lenovo and Novell are making that agreement a reality. Our position has been and continues to be that Linux is [...]
Interoperability
Linux and Open Source technologies continue their advancement into today's data centers where according to Gartner, 67% of data centers run some combination of Linux and Windows. Serving this growing market reality was the driving catalyst behind our interoperability partnership with Microsoft. And it's nice to see as we end 2007 that [...]
I came into the office today with the ...
I came into the office today with the intent of spending a few hours cleaning up various odds and ends before calling it a day and spending the holidays with family and friends.
Among the piles on my desk were a group of holiday cards. The notes were great reminders of the numerous business and [...]
Enhancing the Community Experience
Community....a group of people having characteristics or interests in common.
There's been a lot written, and rightly so, about the evolving importance of community or more broadly communities in shaping, informing, enhancing, promoting, criticizing and prioritizing a company's agenda and value in the market place. Whether you're an adherent to the "wisdom of crowds" philosophy [...]
Evolving novell.com
Making the Novell.com experience more meaningful, interactive and even entertaining for all who visit is a continuous journey for us. We know will never reach perfection but the web is a terrific platform to test new ideas and continue to innovate.
So it is with our electronic marketing team who has been quietly launching a [...]
New HP technologies for virtualized infrastructures
In order to reap the benefits of virtualization, companies are investing in additional networking equipment, including network expansion cards, switches and cables. To help companies reduce costs, increase bandwidth and improve performance of virtual server environments, HP recently announced breakthrough networking, storage and server technologies. The HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet modul...
Guest Blog: The results are in for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Guest Blog: The results are in for "SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time"
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Guest Blog:The results are in for "SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time"
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Guest Blog: The results are in for "SUSE" Linux Enterprise Real Time
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Guest Blog: The results are in for 'SUSE' Linux Enterprise Real Time
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Guest Blog: The results are in for " SUSE" Linux Enterprise Real Time
- from Kerry Kim, Product Marketing Manager for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time at Novell
Sometimes I get asked to explain the difference between a real time operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, and a general purpose operating system, like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Most people can understand at a higher level that [...]
Schools flock to "Free the Penguins"
In just two months since it was announced, the "Free the Penguins" promotion has already taken flight. To date, universities and K-12 schools in 29 states and 10 nations have signed-on to the program to help them maximize their IT budgets by cutting desktop computing costs with multi-station SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops.
Given the success of [...]
Ahead of the class
Students looking to leverage the power of Linux got a new option today when Lenovo announced its "e" IdeaPad S10e netbook for education. Designed to provide one-to-one computing for grade k-12 as well as higher education students, this new education netbook is available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell, giving customers an affordable [...]
Guest Blog: Linux on the mainframe just got more affordable
- from Kim Lorusso, Global Alliances Marketing Manager at Novell
This week, IBM launched its next-generation mainframe for midsize customers, the IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC). Novell is offering SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z at reduced subscription pricing, through December 2009, for new integrated facilities for Linux (IFL's) on the System z10 [...]
Get more from your office productivity software
With stock markets "yo-yoing" and credit tightening, companies are looking for ways to cut costs yet stay competitive. In these volatile times, for SMBs, educational institutions and enterprises, the desktop is one area of enterprise IT that is ripe for savings. Following the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, Novell is pleased to announce the availability of [...]
Guest blog: SUSE Studio unveiled
- From Matt Richards, Senior Manager for SUSE Studio
Recently, we unveiled a sneak preview of the alpha release of SUSE Studio at VMworld. SUSE Studio is the innovative new online tool from Novell that enables ISVs and the community to rapidly build, configure and test software appliances. At VMworld, we built three fully functional SUSE [...]
Welcome Amie Johnson!
I'm very pleased to welcome Amie Johnson to the Novell PR team. Amie started work last week and will be supporting our identity and security management solutions, as well as PR for our channel.
Amie brings great experience to Novell. Before joining us she ran worldwide PR for Burton Group, a leading IT analyst firm with [...]
Customers embrace SUSE Linux Enterprise support for SAP
Companies in India are making good use of SUSE Linux Enterprise Priority Support for SAP Applications.
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Limited (Café Coffee Day) is a fully integrated coffee company, involved in every activity from growing coffee beans on its 5,000 acres of plantations through harvesting, roasting, blending, exporting and retailing. Based in India, the [...]
Lenovo launches server line for SMBs
In case you missed it, yesterday Lenovo announced its worldwide entry into the server market with its new ThinkServer line, targeted for small and medium businesses. As part of the announcement, Lenovo said its new ThinkServer family will be available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, Lenovo's preferred Linux operating system provider. The availability [...]
Look, learn, listen – Novell at VMworld
VMworld in Las Vegas is the center of the virtualization world this week. Look for several announcements from Novell at the event, learn about some of our virtualization solutions in booth #634 and listen to our executives present on the industry's latest trends.
Visitors to the Novell booth will get to experience SUSE Studio, a Web-based [...]
Look, learn, listen – Novell and PlateSpin at VMworld
VMworld in Las Vegas is the center of the virtualization world this week. Look for several announcements from Novell and PlateSpin (a Novell company) at the event, learn about some of our virtualization solutions in booths #634 and #628, and listen to our executives present on the industry's latest trends.
Visitors to the Novell booth #634 [...]
Virtual realities
Last month we announced a significant incremental investment in our relationship with Microsoft that included Microsoft's purchase of up to $100 million in certificates that customers can redeem for expanded support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We also announced plans for new technologies and programs for customers seeking an enterprise-class Linux platform and specifically, optimal [...]
PlateSpin expands partnerships
Dell today announced the expansion of its virtualization strategy here.
Included in this announcement, was the news that Dell has chosen software and tools from PlateSpin, a Novell company, to support this strategy. As part of the OEM agreement, Dell will:
Include PlateSpin PowerConvert software on all PowerEdge servers to enable enterprises to optimize their data center [...]
Just in time for the fall lineup
Novell recently posted videos of three Novell experts discussing one of the key security challenges faced by today's enterprises and how open source innovation can help businesses secure their environments. In the three short videos, Director of Marketing for Identity and Security Andrew Eliopoulos takes a look at what it takes to prove compliance with [...]
Innovation Culture
Most of my topics are about Novell's externally facing strategies and products. These are driven by key internal processes such as Novell's implementation of Integrated Product Development (IPD) (that ensures we are prioritizing features appropriately), and Engineering Excellence (that assures process discipline that guarantees schedule and quality.
In our dynamic industry we require focus and...
Novell Acquires Managed Objects
Last week Novell announced a definitive agreement to acquire Managed Objects, a leader in Business Services Management, and developers of incredible technology in the area of Configuration Management Data Bases. With this we continue to build a strong portfolio of open management solutions for the interoperable data center. We are staying true to [...]
Compliance management platform, first step to agile infrastructure
Earlier this month, Novell announced a breakthrough in the Identity Management area: We created an advanced compliance management platform. I will briefly review its breakthrough properties, but then I will add comments that we did not announce with the product. I will relate this to our longer-term goal of creating an agile [...]
Interoperability, redux
Technology collaboration with Microsoft. Interoperability. Virtualization.
I blog about these topics so often, yet with our series of announcements last week I need to come back to them again.
Joint virtualization solutions
Our partnership with Microsoft has many components beyond business collaboration. On the technology front we have active projects for document and file [...]
Depth of partnership
Last week we jointly announced with Microsoft a significant incremental investment to in our existing partnership, including Microsoft's purchase of an additional $100M in certificates that customers can redeem for expanded support from Novell for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Reception by customers, partners, press, and analysts has been uniformly positive and I don't have [...]
Desktop Management
In Novell, we have a two-pronged strategy focused on Enterprise Linux and IT Management Software. IT Management Software is a logical complement of Enterprise Linux – Linux manages the resources of a system while IT Management Software manages the resources across heterogeneous systems.
Management software is of huge importance to customers: Analyst firms estimate that [...]
The interoperable data center
In previous blogs [ref blogs on virtualization, I described Novell's leadership in open source virtualization. We were the first Linux distribution to introduce XEN and have significant customer experience through Open Enterprise Server (Netware virtualized on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server). We are at the forefront.
I have also emphasized our focus on interoperability – [...]
Engineering Excellence
In my last posting I described initiatives to ensure excellence in our internal processes. I described Integrated Product Development (IPD) which we use to gain information about customer needs, market trends, and technology trends and translate into high quality products that meet these needs and wants.
While IPD is used to decide what products we [...]
Process Excellence
Usually I write about our business and product strategies. Powering our strategies is an execution engine that ensures we build the right products with the right features for our customers - on a timely basis and with high quality. The execution engine is Novell's people: programmers, engineers, product managers, project managers, marketing specialists, [...]
SUSE Linux Enterprise roadmap
In the last several months we have made key announcements about the roadmap for our flagship Linux product – SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). In March we announced our schedule for SLE 11 and invited participation from the community. More recently, we announced the general availability of SLE 10 SP2. Both represent steps in [...]
Software delivery models and SAP
SAP is a key player in the software industry and a key partner of Novell. Last year, we introduced a tight partnership and joint support model for SAP on SLES. In my last posting, I described how Novell is getting closer to SAP on identity management.
SAP is important to Novell not only because SAP is [...]
Next steps in Identity
I have spent the last several entries outlining our exciting Fossa project – and I have not kept up with my practice of outlining the strategy behind our recent announcements. At BrainShare we had several significant announcements which I'd like to explain further.
A growing ecosystem for Novell Identity Manager
Novell has long been a leader in [...]
Fossa, further continued
In my last two postings, I introduced Novell's future vision for an agile infrastructure to support computing and collaboration. I described the CIO motivation, eight use cases which make agility compelling, technology megatrends which make this possible, and the seven key technology areas which will allow the realization of this vision. These seven areas are: [...]
Fossa, continued
In my last posting, I introduced Novell's future vision for an agile infrastructure to support computing and collaboration. I described the CIO motivation, technology megatrends which make this possible, and the seven key technology areas which will allow the realization of this vision. These seven areas are: policy, identity, virtualization, Linux, orchestration, compliance and collaboration.
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Fossa
My next several posts will relate to BrainShare. I want to summarize my keynote address and discuss several of our significant announcements.
My keynote address started by discussing Ron Hovsepian's business vision for Novell – Novell harmoniously integrates mixed-I/T environments to allow people and technology to work as one. I asked: what does this mean for [...]
PlateSpin acquisition
My December 31st blog was about Novell's strategy for 2008. The major themes were Linux and open source, and products that manage a mixed source environment. Interoperability is key. On January 14th I followed this with a deep dive elaborating on our virtualization strategy.
Aligned with this strategy we announced last month that we entered definitive [...]
Acquisition of SiteScape
Earlier this month, Novell announced the acquisition of SiteScape, a provider of team workspace and real-time conferencing solutions. Let's view this acquisition through the lens of key industry megatrends: telco convergence, social networking, and open source.
Telco convergence
For most of the last several decades, the telecommunications industry and the computer industry were separate trilli...
openSUSE enthusiasm
Recently, I described Novell's support for openSUSE's efforts to open and socialize their governance process. Novell wants openSUSE to continue to be pre-eminent. We want the story to be told. So last week we took our next step – appointing Joe Brockmeier to be openSUSE community manager.
What is a Community Manager?
Frankly, I'm [...]
Novell Fellow Program
Novell, like most technology companies, has a dual career ladder. There is a management career ladder for those employees whose aspirations take them towards business and people leadership. As individuals grow in experience, they become managers, take more senior positions, and eventually may join the executive ranks. There is a technical [...]
Novell's technical strategy for 2008
In my last posting, I outlined Novell's technical strategy and illustrated proof points from 2007 that we were on track. In looking forward to 2008, I want to illustrate the methods – rather than details - we will use to increase velocity on this strategy. Here are some of the key points.
Innovation and [...]
The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later - LinuxWorld.au
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A Novell approach to business - Australian Techworld
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RE[5]: Good for them. - OS News
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RE: Some people will always be ignorant and militant! - Newmobilecomputing.com
RE: Some people will always be ignorant and militant! Newmobilecomputing.com - 33 minutes ago Eben Moglen was one, having been given access under NDA prior to Novell releasing agreement specifics, and couldn't find anything that directly infringed ... Some people will always be ignorant and militant! Newmobilecomputing.com all 4 news articles
At what point does the stock market tumble become funny? - CNET News
At what point does the stock market tumble become funny? CNET News, CA - 33 minutes ago Unfortunately, it's not just Red Hat, Novell , and Sun that are getting pulverized by Wall Street. The entire market is in free-fall. Novell and Sun are ...
Microsoft and Novell Partners on Silverlight Conduit Called Moonlight - ITProPortal
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Microsoft, Novell Eye Moonlight Beta, System Management - PC World
Microsoft, Novell Eye Moonlight Beta, System Management PC World - 16 minutes ago Marking the two-year anniversary of their controversial interoperability agreement, Microsoft and Novell this week are announcing upcoming availability of ...
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'IP Peace of Mind' Year 2 for Microsoft-Novell - Virtualization Review
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Novell selects PAN as AOR - Brand Republic
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Red Hat customers unswayed by Novell's pitch to switch - Search Enterprise Linux
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Microsoft, Novell prepare 'Moonlight' beta - ZDNet Asia
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Novell, Microsoft ready management pack for SUSE Linux - SearchWinIT.com
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Novell and Microsoft sanction Silverlight work-alike for Linux - BetaNews
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"Moonlight" ready to shine - eWeek
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Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management - InfoWorld
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Daon Partners with TriVir to Deliver Physical Access Control ... - MarketWatch
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Microsoft, Novell toast anniversary with tools, support coupons
Marking the two-year anniversary of their partnership, Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday they were releasing tools to help users manage and support SUSE Linux.
Novell bolsters GroupWise 8
Novell Monday shipped GroupWise 8, adding interface and administrative upgrades to its messaging and calendaring platform.
Novell lays out Red Hat attack plan
Novell Tuesday took aim at rival and Linux market leader Red Hat with a migration service designed to help move Linux users onto Novell's Suse enterprise servers.
Novell's Managed Objects' BSM buy spurs industry discussion
Novell's bid to acquire business service management (BSM) software maker Managed Objects caused many in the industry to stop and take notice. Some commend Novell's investment in the smaller management player, but others worry Novell could fail to exploit Managed Objects' technology to its maximum potential.
Lenovo targets new netbook at students
Lenovo this week unveiled a netbook PC designed to be the first mobile PC for K-12 students and a "secondary device" for college students.
The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks
The growth of Linux, virtualization and services are fueling efforts by corporations to tune their management tools to accommodate mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.
Meeting the challenge of mixed Linux, Windows and virtualization management
The growth of Linux, virtualization and services are fueling efforts by corporations to tune their management tools to accommodate mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.
Novell, Aveksa unveil Novell Access Governance Suite; Quest details NetPro roadmap
There have been quite a few product announcements recently which I haven't gotten to as yet but I wouldn't want you to think they aren't important, or at least useful. So today I'll give a quick rundown of them with pointers to where you can find out more. The announcements involve Novell Access Governance Suite, Sun's Identity Compliance Manager, Courion's PasswordCourier Jump Start, and a roa...
Novell, Sun, Oracle crank out identity and access wares
Novell, Sun and Oracle have announced updates to their identity-management platforms.
Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?
Click here to see what Gartner, Network World and other experts say about the new data center.
Security information and event management: Finding the proverbial needle
As SIEM tools evolve, information security specialists are getting closer to the day when making sense of and taking action on disparate security events gets quick and easy.
Novell gets into NAC
Recently Novell decided to get into NAC with an OEM offer from StillSecure.
UTM devices are making headway
Customers using unified threat management devices say the appliances represent a more streamlined way to provide multiple security functions and to track down security data, but don't necessarily meet all gateway security needs adequately.
Novell enters NAC market via partnership
Novell is getting into network access control via an OEM agreement with StillSecure that initially provides a stand-alone product but also includes plans to ensure that software works well with Novell's ZENworks configuration management.
Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff
Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executives from Cisco and Novell proclaimed this week during their keynote addresses at Interop New York.
Microsoft-Novell partnership yields virtualization bundle
Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair's first fully supported joint product since their interoperability partnership was forged in 2006.
Novell unites identity management, security-event management
Novell Tuesday is launching its Compliance Management Platform, a combination of existing identity management and security-event management products with additional reporting and analysis tools.
Novell revenue up, net income loss at $15 million
Novell Thursday posted a net income loss of $15 million for its fiscal third quarter fueled by a charge related to its "auction-rate securities."
Microsoft invests $100 million more in Novell
Microsoft Wednesday said it would spend another $100 million to purchase certificates it will distribute to users who can cash them in for support on their Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers.
SCO Group: Its future is all used up
More bad news in court for The SCO Group, which is good news for the industry, writes columnist Scott Bradner.
