Novell Still Negotiating Sale - Touching Base With the News
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-08-17 09:10:16 UTC
Modified: 2010-08-17 09:10:16 UTC
Summary: As Novell potentially comes to the end of its last era, another synopsis is presented based on news about its products
ACCORDING to this original statement, Novell is still on the block. This possibly means that Novell as a publicly-traded company is having its last weeks/months.
Oracle, Amazon Offer New Ways to Run Linux From Afar
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VDI 3.2 officially supports Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Oracle Enterprise Linux, though organizations are free to run other Linux distributions with the software as well. Oracle has no plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux, given that the company's own Oracle Enterprise Linux is a close replica of that OS, Coekaerts said.
Speaking of Amazon, further to what we wrote earlier on about SLES at Amazon [1, 2], there's more news coverage such as:
OpenSUSE is intended to be the free/libre SLE*, but with the exception of some HOWTOs and occasional reviews or summaries, there is rarely any story told about large deployments of OpenSUSE. Red Hat and Canonical seem to have a stronger grip on desktops.
OpenSUSE still comprises volunteers like this person who writes: "Working on design for the openSUSE project is indeed a hard thing to do. I am not a Novell or openSUSE employee. I do what I do with my free time, which will be drastically reduced soon, because the school year is starting at the end of the month."
The project called "OpenSUSE" is still Novell's property. It would help if Novell truly set it free (as in independent).
SCO
Groklaw and Lamlaw continue to explore the SCO case since SCO appeals the ruling in Novell's favour [1, 2].
An issue is hardly moot when SCO continues to appeal the relevant issues. But, then SCO has to somehow get the US Supreme Court to stay away from their nuisance law suits. SCO lawyers know for certain that if the US Supreme Court decides that a writing means that the specific copyrights subject to a transfer actually have to be identified in the writing itself, they are out of luck.
Regardless of this case, there's still Oracle to worry about [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], not to mention Microsoft and Apple, both of which are suing to get royalties out of Linux. Novell already pays such royalties to Microsoft, having approached Microsoft to make it happen. ⬆
People or businesses or government officials (and departments) that still rely on Social Control Media are playing Russian Roulette with their future online
"the Central Staff Committee (CSC) asks the Administrative Council to exert its supervisory role and instruct EPO management to enter into genuine dialogue with the staff representation on the AI Policy, to revise the “Leverage AI” target of 90% AI-automated classification in the SP2028 and to put in place the measures supported by staff in the resolution."
We need to remind people that desktops and laptops decline (in proportion to other client devices) and at the "back end" GNU/Linux is already dominant and has long been dominant
