Development

On the development front, it is reassuring to know that Novell carries on its work on the open source ATI/AMD driver.

The key Novell developers include Matthias Hopf, Luc Verhaegen, and Egbert Eich. Stefan Dirsch, who maintains the fglrx driver packaging scripts for SuSE, also has contributed to the xf86-video-radeonhd driver.

Courtroom

In the legal front, Novell keeps pressuring SCO out of business.

Novell wants the money SCO owes it, and sooner rather than later. As Groklaw succinctly summarized it: "If the New York Daily News was coming up with a headline for this filing, it'd probably be something like this: Novell to SCO: Drop Dead. First Pay Up."

Here is an article that predates this.

Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said he hopes the bankruptcy court judge won't attempt to impede the arbitration proceeding from going forward as planned.

Novell has insisted that it is not the next SCO and it has actually been sitting hard on SCO for quite some time.

Business in the Door

Novell has some wins to brag about. The first one comes from Mexico.

Providing services to more than 12 million people and 830,000 employers, INFONAVIT has deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise as the basis for its new payment collection system.

From Pakistan comes this, about deployments in banks.

KARACHI: The BankIslami has joined the league of elite brands of the world in deploying Novell's SUSE Linux enterprise server and SUSE Linux Enterprise desktop for its IT requirements.

Here is the experience of one retailer whose story is told to IT Pro.

Online gadget specialist I Want One of Those (IWOOT) has chosen to deploy SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell as part of its ongoing open source strategy.

The deployment is part of the online gadget retailer's strategy to reduce IT costs by migrating its infrastructure to open source-based technology components, having moved its website and other front-end IT systems to Red Hat last year.

Employment

Novell is apparently going to staff up its Ireland operations. It seems like good news and it aligns with Google's expansions in Ireland.

Enterprise software company Novell is in the process of expanding its Dublin operations, growing employment at the Sandyford facility from around 100 at the start of this year to approximately 200 by the end of the year, siliconrepublic.com has learned.