02.13.10
Posted in Finance, Google, Interview, Marketing, Microsoft, NetWare, Novell, Ron Hovsepian, SCO, Security, Servers, UNIX, Virtualisation, Xen at 3:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: News touching on Novell’s non-Free/libre component of the business
THIS is the third part which covers Novell news from the first two weeks of February. This part covers Novell’s proprietary side, of which there is a lot (Novell is predominantly a closed-source company). What we happen to have found along the way this week is that Novell is not just a company that makes jewelry; there is yet another company called Novell Pharmaceutical Laboratories. Here is what we gather from the press release:
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01.31.10
Posted in Mail, NetWare, Novell, Virtualisation at 3:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Two weeks of proprietary software news from Novell
ANOTHER IDLE fortnight passes by and Novell is said to be facing more threats from Google’s expansion.
To be fair, Wave is still at an unstable, preview stage, but Google has seemed satisfied thus far just hoping the platform will evolve naturally as a tool for enterprises once companies like Novell and Salesforce.com have a chance to game around with it.
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01.09.10
Posted in Courtroom, Google, Identity Management, Mail, Microsoft, NetWare, Novell, SCO, Security, Virtualisation, VMware at 5:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Novell news from the past two weeks (excepting SUSE/OpenSUSE)
THERE is a heap of stuff to be shared here this week, but none of it is groundbreaking.
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12.26.09
Posted in Finance, Identity Management, Mail, Marketing, Microsoft, NetWare, Novell, Red Hat, Security, SLES/SLED, Videos at 9:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Dull week passes by, but we pick up and present some of the minor developments surrounding Novell
IT is a holiday, so this one will be short.
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12.19.09
Posted in Finance, Google, Mail, NetWare, Novell, Servers, Virtualisation at 9:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: A mixed bag of news regarding key Novell products that are proprietary
IT HAS BEEN a very bad week for Novell, but a company/firm called Skymark Research intends to look into the company’s financial situation.
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11.21.09
Posted in Dell, Mail, Marketing, Microsoft, NetWare, Novell, SCO, Servers, UNIX, Virtualisation at 9:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Despite being a quiet week for Novell, there are items worth highlighting as follows
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11.16.09
Posted in FUD, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, NetWare, Oracle, Protocol, Samba, Servers, Standard, Windows at 11:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: An example of disinformation about history being spread by those to whom open, royalty-free standards are a foe
ONE of our readers has alerted us about what seems like revisionism — a topic that we covered many times before, e.g. in:
Getting down to the latest claim of revisionism, our reader points to this article which says: ‘“In the dot-com bust it was Unix to Linux migration because Linux was cheaper than Solaris on SPARC,” says Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise, a maker of integration and identity management software for mixed environments. “Phase 2 [of corporate open source adoption] has been accelerated by the current economic conditions. IT is looking to do things in a cost-effective manner and there are a lot of viable open source solutions out there.”‘
Our reader says: “It looks like another Microsoft partner trying to establish revisionist history of the history of the WWW.
“You can spot the Microsoft partners by how they stick to Microsoft talking points and how they exist to rope businesses into Microsoft infrastructure and elimination of open standards.”
–Anonymous“During the dot-com, Linux was being added in addition to SunOS on Sparc and Digital Unix on Alpha. Microsoft had not yet even begun to infect the server room at the time, despite the beginnings of FUD and even a smattering of false advertising.
“Linux was often used to get a web service up and running with the least amount of delay on old PCs while the real hardware request was making its way through administrative channels.
“Unluckily, Linux ended up giving managers the idea that Windows servers worked. Most of the claims of growth for Windows in the server room can be blamed on Microsoft eating Novell Netware’s market through false advertising (see court cases) and BSA strongarming. Once those were in place, users bitched up a storm at the loss of reliability. The fast response by the IT dept was to slap Samba on a machine and not tell anyone. The increased reliability of files services for Windows users was attributed then to Windows Server, rather than Samba on Linux. Often the Windows server that a zealot manager forced on the IT department sat in the corner humming away, consuming electricity, WITHOUT a network cable. Then came the day, that under the belief that the server room was using Windows, the managers replaced a departing tech with a Windows monkey who promptly zapped the Samba…”
We gave several examples of migrations without permission back in August. This issue is real.
As for Likewise, it is the "Microsoft version" of Samba (adding software patents to the original software). Our reader shares this older article which starts with: “What’s it like to be an open source company that’s also a Microsoft partner dependent on the Windows world? Not bad, says Barry Crist, CEO of Likewise Software…
Our reader then adds: “You can spot the Microsoft partners by how they stick to Microsoft talking points and how they exist to rope businesses into Microsoft infrastructure and elimination of open standards. That company is peddling Microsoft alternative to Kerberos+LDAP+(puppet/radmind)
“Another apologist company is Cloudera, which seems to be one of Microsoft proxies to damage the Apache foundation and Hadoop in particular.”
Our reader points to a press release, but this latter assessment/speculation is highly questionable. Cloudera was formed by a man from Oracle, whose company had been bought before he left (one can see its genesis in the official Web sites), so any suggestion that its GNU/Linux-based Hadoop distribution is a negative thing would require considerable proof. Regardless, the part about Likewise was worth a quick discussion. There are reasons for distrust, many of which we covered before. █
“What we are trying to do is use our server control to do new protocols and lock out Sun and Oracle specifically”
–Bill Gates
“Thanks to Mr. Gates, we now know that an open Internet with protocols anyone can implement is communism; it was set up by that famous communist agent, the US Department of Defense.”
–Richard Stallman
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11.14.09
Posted in Mail, NetWare, Novell, OpenSUSE, SCO, Servers at 11:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: A bundle of news about Novell Pulse, SCO-Novell news, and various other items
With OpenSUSE being the main item this week, not much else could be said about Novell. We wrote about Pulse last week and it is still the most unique item of Novell news.
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