Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part III: Novell's NCR, SAP and Sitescape Business (with Videos)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2008-03-08 08:19:37 UTC
Modified: 2008-03-08 08:19:37 UTC
A partner of a partner is also a partner
There are a few Novell products and announcements which are worth mentioning here. The first is the point of sales product from NCR, which uses SUSE.
Novell and NCR are cross-promoting their products as an integrated POS solution.
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Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group. The research firm reckons Linux accounted for $475 million of the $5.56 billion market, putting it third overall with an 8.5 percent market share. More details can be found here.
The hardware for the prototype SAP is showing at CeBIT is provided by open-source software specialist Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise.
We wrote about this negatively earlier this week. SAP is a Microsoft partner, so it's hardly surprising that it uses a "Microsoft-approved" (i.e. Microsoft-taxed) distribution, despite the recent Red Hat certification for SAP.
Over at Linux Journal, Novell's ICEcore Workshop gets highlighted.
It turns out that Novell’s Open Source Technology Center is sponsoring a workshop on ICEcore, an open source collaboration toolkit (it’s written one way on their website and another in the email, I don’t know which one to believe.).
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
