Summary: BrainShare and Xamarin in the news, or at least in paid press releases

WE have been advised to keep an eye on Novell and SUSE for a while longer. Based on the VAR Guy, who attended some Novell events where he helped promote the company, the BrainShare affair goes on for a while longer but not with the usual attendance. "Many of the Novell leaders who led BrainShare 2010 won’t be on hand for BrainShare 2011," he explains. "Gone are former Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon — who was last year’s master of ceremonies — and former Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, who led Novell’s sale to Attachmate. Hovsepian, Dragoon and other Novell executives exited the company when Attachmate completed the Novell acquisition."

Novell is still crumbling (more on the in an imminent post). Recently we saw one of the remnants, Xamarin, targeting proprietary platforms with Microsoft's .NET, showing to us quite clearly why the loss of Novell is not much of a loss at all. It's proprietary. ⬆