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Minor Observations About Novell

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Summary: As part of our "Boycott Novell" action, here is a succinct overview covering some of Novell's latest deeds and short-term plans

THIS post summarises some bits and pieces about Novell, based on the past week's news.

Last year we wrote about Siki Giunta leaving Novell (where she served as Vice President of Strategic Business) and according to new reports [1, 2], she is in CSC now, serving again as a Vice President.

Some weeks ago we wrote about Itanium and later mentioned SUSE. Well, here is a relevant new report:

Being a fairly low-volume server player, once the old Silicon Graphics tossed away its own MIPS chips and Irix Unix variant in favor of Intel's Itanium processors and Novell's SUSE Linux, the company tightly aligned itself with Intel.


Novell is going to be a LinuxCon 2010 sponsor.

This year's event is being sponsored by HP, IBM, Intel and Novell.


Novell's "OpenSUSE Boosters" will also attend LinuxExpo 2010 (Novell has been trying some marketing gimmicks recently).

For those who didn't know, last week there was an event called LinuxExpo in Prague. And we off course went there with the Czech part of openSUSE Boosters team to talk about openSUSE. Other colleagues also helped with running openSUSE booth. And some of our community members we standing around talking to people as well.


There is another event in Europe, namely the BrainShare in Amsterdam. It's a case of contracting.

Novell has appointed Event IT to run a series of meetings in Amsterdam this month.


There is a new montage based on BrainShare 2010. Microsoft and Novell appear in what seems like Russian TV and Novell's booth from Interop 2010 is shown in this new video (someone has also uploaded embarrassingly kitschy Novell videos from Interop 1991 [1, 2]).

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