There are certain Novell stories which we have not mentioned, so consider this a short digest.

First of all, two press releases that offer some praises:

• Novell Technical Support Wins Industry, Customer Praise



• DoubleCheck Integrates Novell Security and Identity Management Products into its Governance, Risk, Compliance and Testing Solution Suite

On the community side, a roadmap for openSUSE 10.3 has been established.

openSUSE 10.3 is the next release that incorporates new features from both the community and Novell internal development.

There is some further analysis of the Opensuse user survey which we previously mentioned.

Users of the Linux distribution OpenSuse are overwhelmingly technical, young males and they prefer working in a character-based environment rather than with a GUI, or graphical user interface, according to a survey conducted by Novell, the creator of Suse.

Lastly, here is an interview with Michael Meeks from Novell's OpenOffice.org team. He justifies support for Microsoft's OOXML.