Proprietary software is to software what junk food is to dining

Summary: A quick overview of this month's Novell news about proprietary software

Identity Manager

● Cooley Law School Secures Identities for Cloud-based Google Apps with Novell Identity Manager (also here)

● Novell announces industry's first solution- Novell Identity Manager 4 (also here)

Bomgar

● Novell Transforms Customer Experience with Collaborative Remote Support from Bomgar

Utah

● Utah's Top Entrepreneurs Recognized at 2010 UVEF Awards (Novell mentioned)

● Why You Should Start a Company in... Salt Lake City

Salt Lake also boasts a history of tech giants in Novell and WordPerfect, and a pair of successful startups in storage device maker Fusion IO and Web analytics software firm Omniture which was sold to Adobe for $1.8 billion this year.

History

● The 10 Biggest Software Stories Of 2010 ("And there was the pending sale of Novell, once a head-to-head competitor of Microsoft, now a relatively minor player," it claims)

● Under scrutiny: A brief history of the relationship between the EU and technology companies

EU vs Microsoft: This long-running antitrust dispute saw Microsoft accused of abusing its dominant market position to push its own products in favour of those made by competitors. It started with a complaint by Novell in 1993 over Microsoft’s licensing practices, but quickly expanded to become an exhaustive investigation of many aspects of Microsoft’s business practices.

GroupLink and GroupWise

● GroupLink Announces Free Service Desk Solution for Open Horizons Members (also here)

This announcement comes as GroupLink shows its commitment to the EMEA market and the members of Open Horizons, the largest Novell user community in the world.

● New Maintenance Release for BlackBerry Enterprise Server - Now Available

● GroupLink unveils free service desk offering for Open Horizons members

● CompanionLink Supports Outlook Sync with Nokia Symbian Phones

Sentinel

● Novell Sentinel Log Manager Tomcat Vulnerability