Maybe it's the effect of the summer holidays, but the past week has not been packed with news. When it comes to Novell, there are only a few items worth mentioning.

KDE has received financial support from Novell. The announcement had Intel mentioned as well.

Intel and Novell have each become corporate Patrons of KDE. Their exceptional financial commitment to the KDE e.V. helps the project with community events, infrastructure and developer meetings.

Elsewhere, aircraft engineers seem to have chosen clusters that are running SUSE Linux.

A powerful cluster solution from SGI is helping engineers accelerate the process of designing the largest helicopter in the U.S. military.

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The system runs Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.

Novell seems to have begun raving about a new Identity management success story. There is another one in a Canadian Web site.

Novell, meanwhile, announced last month the availability of an open-source information card selector that will allow users to manage their virtual identities across different platforms.

Novell had a guest appearance in the Indian press where it talked about interoperability.

The growth of Linux in the Asia Pacific is outpacing the market average.

As for some personal perspectives, Novell's PR blog has referred to one. C|Net had an interview with Brad Nicholes, who is working at Novell.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Brad. He was the voice of experience on Novell's Open Source Review Board, having earned the distinction of "member" with the Apache Software Foundation.

The biggest news for Novell in the past week is probably Italy's selection of SUSE Linux for its parliament. Sarcastically for sure, Mr. Asay comes up with the headline Italian Communists choose Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I'm not too sure about this type of humour, but maybe it's subjective.