Every now an then, Novell-related stories that fit nowhere specific simply get accumulated. Here are three noteworthy stories, listed in case you have missed them.

FSF admits defeat on Apache

"We apologize to the Apache community for having previously overlooked the significance of this issue. We look forward to further discussions with the Apache Foundation in the hope of achieving compatibility in the future," said the FSF.

Open-Xchange gets new CEO, CTO

In addition, the company announced it hired as chief technology officer Juergen Geck, who had been CTO of Novell's Suse Linux software but left one year ago.

Microsoft and Interoperability: Buzz-word or Promise?

I were a Microsoft customer looking at all of their claims of interoperability (especially made in concert with new partner Novell), I would expect that working on such a huge interoperability project like Samba would just be a given. Evidently not.

So, as a hypothetical customer, is Microsoft really doing its best to achieve interoperability, or is it just paying lip service for the benefit of its new partners, while playing a stalling game with every other project that could accomplish integration and interoperability?