Summary: Novell ignores Symbian and Android users and instead just services hypePhone [sic] users due to "customer demand"

WHAT A BLUNDER. Despite that fact that Android phone activations roughly equate or outpace those of hypePhone, Novell brings Fog Computing control to Apple products like hypePhone but not Linux-based phones which include Android. IDG inquired to get this explanation: "Ben Grubin, director of data center management for Novell, told Network World that the remote management application might appear on other mobile platforms, such as BlackBerry, Android, and Windows 7, if there is sufficient customer demand."

Well, fine then. So based on the news around IWM -- including a press release -- Novell continues to market proprietary software, its roadmap shows no signs of change, and it's mostly about marketing (new brand name for old products) and bribes-for 'studies' which are being used for marketing. On top of it all, IWM only services people whose phones run the most locked-down, proprietary operating system and snubs the leading mobile operating systems which are free/open source software, notably Symbian and Android. Shame on Novell for pretending to be a friend of "open source". In a later post we'll show how it uses its patents against "open source", which makes it more like a foe than a friend. The video segment below springs to mind. Novell's commitment to software freedom is virtually non-existent. ⬆

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