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Ron Hovsepian

  • 11.29.06 Q&A with Ron Hovsepian
  • 12.11.06 The Quiet Before the Storm
  • 02.15.07 Ron Hovsepian Defending Microvell Deal
  • 03.20.07 Hovsepian Denies Microsoft Takeover
  • 05.15.07 Novell’s CEO Denies Patent Infringement in Linux, Eyes Acquisitions
  • 08.08.07 Ron Hovsepian Apparently Gives the Nod to Microsoft Patent Deals, Gets Red Hat Angered
  • 09.17.07 2006 Flashback: Ron Hovsepian Nods in Approval on Linux Patents
  • 10.20.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell CEOs in the Headlines
  • 11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Dell, China, SCO, and Ron Hovsepian Interview
  • 02.28.08 Novell Operates at Loss, Layoffs Expected, Company Sold Out But Ron Hovsepian Receives Reward
  • 03.23.08 BrainShare 2008 Press Roundup: Part I
  • 03.31.08 PR Lies, Ron Hovsepian Takes the PR Role
  • 04.03.08 Novell’s Ron Hovsepian Slammed by Sun Employee
  • 04.15.08 Sun VP: Novell CEO Not Keeping Up on the Competition
  • 04.16.08 Novell: Putting the Defeatism in GNU/Linux Since 2006
  • 05.31.08 Novell’s CEO is Dissing Red Hat (Again)
  • 09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SUSE and Ron Hovsepian at Interop
  • 01.03.09 Ron Hovsepian’s Approval Rating is Only 64%
  • 02.06.09 Ron Hovsepian’s 15 Seconds of Silliness
  • 02.06.09 Ron Hovsepian on Novell Layoffs
  • 12.22.09 Put the Red Hat on
  • 01.06.10 CIO Prediction: Novell to be Acquired in 6 Months
  • 03.03.10 Ron Hovsepian Receives Another Large Lump of Cash as Novell Sale Looms
  • 10.08.10 Novell Has Lost Money for 3 Straight Years, But CEO’s Bonus Still Grossly Inflated
  • 10.14.10 Novell’s CEO Criticised for Unjustified Wage/Bonus
  • 05.31.11 Another Microsoft Partnership That Killed: Novell Left Broken, Managers Who Signed the Microsoft Deal Vanish
  • 09.10.11 Carol Bartz: Her Job is Done
  • 10.24.12 IntraLinks Absorbs Novell Executives
  • 04.14.19 ‘Poor’ (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights


  • 03.21.07 Interviews: Linus Torvalds About GPLv2, Ron Hovsepian on the Deal
  • 06.24.07 How Much Did Mr. Typaldos, Mr. Carmony, and Mr. Hovsepian Get Paid to Stomp on Linux? (Updated)
  • 11.09.07 Quick Mention: Somebody, Explain to Mr. Hovsepian What Fedora Is
  • 04.02.08 Zemlin Flirts with Hovsepian: The Best Novell Commercial Money Needn’t Buy
  • 04.17.08 On Ron Hovsepian’s Latest GNU/Linux FUD
  • 03.01.09 The Novell/Microsoft Deal Failed, But Not for Ron Hovsepian
  • 10.31.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Near GM; Ron Hovsepian Congratulates Intel
  • 03.20.10 Novell Staff Shrank by ~10% and Hovsepian Allegedly Plays Hard to Get With Elliott Associates
  • 05.30.10 Ron Hovsepian’s Scorecard
  • 11.22.10 Hovsepian’s Mission Accomplished – Novell Decommissioned, Microsoft Gets the Patents and Maybe UNIX
  • 01.13.11 Upon Exit, Ronald Hovsepian and Co. May ‘Loot’ Novell One Last Time
  • 05.22.11 Hovsepian, Russell, O’Keefe, Shah, Hale, Kavanagh, Semel, Ebzery and Many Others Leave Novell


  • 11.18.06 Two Quick Things – Censorship & SCO (v.)
  • 11.28.06 OpenSUSE Q&A on IRC
  • 11.29.06 If Novell Turns to Virtualization, Has it Abandoned Its Linux Vision?
  • 11.29.06 Novell’s Open Letter Watered Down?
  • 11.30.06 Developers! Developers! Developers!
  • 12.02.06 Anyone Believe Microsoft is this Stupid?
  • 12.03.06 SCO’s Role in This Abusive Relationship
  • 12.06.06 When Your Sworn Enemy is Your Biggest Reseller
  • 12.13.06 Microsoft and Novell Teach Together
  • 12.16.06 Steinman: Ballmer’s PASS Statements Taken Out of Context
  • 12.22.06 A Chair Flies in Waltham?
  • 12.22.06 Novell’s CEO Justifies Patent Cooperation
  • 12.30.06 Jeremy Allison Speaks, Post-Novell
  • 12.31.06 Our Interview with Jeremy Allison
  • 12.31.06 Some Interesting Financial Moves by Novell
  • 01.04.07 Novell Talks Red Hat, Still Sidles With Microsoft
  • 01.08.07 Novell’s Global Effect on Perception of Software Patents
  • 01.09.07 Is Novell the New SCO?
  • 01.13.07 More Proof that Novell Approves Need for Patents Covenants
  • 01.23.07 Walmart Accepts Microsoft’s Stay-Out-Of-Court-Free Coupons
  • 01.29.07 The Impact of the Novell/Microsoft Deal, in Pictures
  • 02.19.07 Red Hat CEO Talks About Lack of Communication in Microsoft/Novell Deal
  • 02.28.07 Novell Distributes Wealth of Job Cuts
  • 03.09.07 Open Source in Business
  • 03.21.07 Ron’s Tiny Regret
  • 03.22.07 Is Novell Gradually Running Out of Friends?
  • 03.22.07 The Net is Abuzz Over Novell’s Impact
  • 04.07.07 Novell Responds With More Spin
  • 04.20.07 On Retaliations, Extortions, and Protection Rackets
  • 05.03.07 Novell’s Love for Sale
  • 05.15.07 Microsoft’s Story Might Contradict Novell’s (Again)
  • 05.31.07 Novell’s CEO Talks About Buybacks (Updated)
  • 06.11.07 Google, Novell, Microsoft, and the Dependency Trap
  • 06.21.07 Novell, Xandros, and Linspire Fail to Tell Apart Foes from Friends
  • 07.30.07 Novell’s Big Open Source Test (and Chance)
  • 07.30.07 Where Will Novell be Years Down the Line?
  • 08.06.07 Novell Sings Microsoft’s Self-serving Tunes
  • 08.08.07 Do-No-Evil Wednesday: LinuxWorld Has Buckets to Offer
  • 08.08.07 Novell Surrenders to Windows in the Datacentre
  • 08.10.07 An Anti-Linux Dan Lyons Mind Replaced by Another Forbes Magazine Writer That Slams Novell
  • 08.11.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Wow. What a Week!
  • 08.15.07 More on Jim Zemlin’s (and Novell’s) “Respect for Microsoft”
  • 08.16.07 Knowledge is Our Friend, Not Our Foe
  • 08.17.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE, Clients, and Senforce Acquisition
  • 08.20.07 Top 10 Novell Facts That People are Rarely Aware of
  • 08.25.07 What Would Jack Messman and Ray Noorda Say?
  • 08.28.07 Novell’s “Underperform” and SCO’s Cash Injections That Brought Its Demise
  • 09.03.07 ~~ Interlude ~~ Where Novell Stands at the Moment
  • 09.05.07 Novell’s Trust in Oxymorons
  • 09.08.07 Investor/Community Conflict of Interests: Like Mozilla, (Un)Like Novell
  • 09.12.07 Mark Shuttleworth Still Dislikes Microsoft’s Linux Deals
  • 09.28.07 Which Will Go Down First? SCO or Linspire?
  • 09.30.07 A Look Back: Novell’s Route to “Balance-sheet Liability”
  • 10.01.07 Microsoft and Novell Talk About the Deal (Audio)
  • 10.01.07 Robber Barons Think Alike (Microsoft and Novell)
  • 10.02.07 Rumour: Novell Layoffs Next Month
  • 10.04.07 Why Novell’s Chief Salesman (Microsoft) Cannot be Trusted
  • 10.07.07 Novell’s OpenOffice.org ‘Fork’ a Case of Misapprehension?
  • 10.07.07 A Peephole into Novell’s Past Sufferings from Microsoft
  • 10.08.07 Forking, Software Patents, Format Incompatibilities, and Corporate Selfishness
  • 10.10.07 Dell, Lenovo to Preload SUSE Desktops
  • 10.20.07 Analysts on a McAfee-Novell Merger and Reflections on Complex Acquisition Logic
  • 10.22.07 New Linus Torvalds Interview Covers the Novell Issue, Again
  • 10.25.07 XenSource and Novell Come to Microsoft’s Rescue
  • 10.28.07 Anti-symbiosis: ODF, OOXML, Mono, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org
  • 10.29.07 Studying Exclusionary Deals with OEMs
  • 11.08.07 Microsoft and Novell Get Even Closer (Updatedx2)
  • 11.10.07 Quick Mention: Novell Takes Cash, Forgives Microsoft for Abuses (Corrected)
  • 11.11.07 Is Vanity Culture Infectious?
  • 11.18.07 Quick Mention: Marketing Linux Not with FUD
  • 11.22.07 Microsoft, Novell, SCO, and NASDAQ Delistings
  • 11.26.07 Quick Mention: Linus Torvalds “Really Don’t Know” About the Legal Issues
  • 11.27.07 One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds…”
  • 11.29.07 GNOME Foundation, Please Stop Attacking the Messenger and Please Listen
  • 12.04.07 Quick Mention: Red Hat Thinks Novell’s SLERT is a Beta, Ripoff (Updated)
  • 12.13.07 Novell’s ‘Success’ is the SEC’s Failure
  • 12.14.07 LinuxToday Readers Weigh in on Novell
  • 12.14.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: What Else is GNU at Novell?
  • 12.14.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Wins and Deals
  • 12.14.07 Novell: The Enemy of Myself is My Friend
  • 12.21.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: Novell’s Finance (An Optimistic Look Back)
  • 12.24.07 Novell’s Annual Report 2007 – Quick Analysis
  • 01.04.08 Novell Does Public Relations Work for Microsoft
  • 01.05.08 Quotes for the Day (or “Why Novell is Toast”)
  • 01.12.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: General Novell News and Novell Partners
  • 02.07.08 Novell: The .NET Company
  • 02.07.08 Old and Tired Bundling Tactics Used Against VMWare
  • 02.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s Channel, Legacy and Many Partners
  • 02.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Mainframes, Identity, Healthcare and ZENworks
  • 02.11.08 The Real Story Behind the Novell/Microsoft Deal or Just a Conspiracy
  • 02.21.08 Microsoft Introduces New Taxoperability Program
  • 03.18.08 Is Novell’s Strategy .NET Software on Top of GNU/Linux?
  • 03.20.08 Novell Takes Pride in Microsoft’s Taxoperability Precedence
  • 03.22.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: BrainShare 2008 Overview
  • 03.24.08 How Novell Fell in Love With Its Hitman
  • 03.29.08 Novell is Failing in the Past and Failing at Present Also
  • 04.03.08 Selected Reactions and EU Investigation of the OOXML Fiasco
  • 04.04.08 More Hostile Fire Over Novell CEO Interview (Corrected)
  • 04.12.08 Quick Mention: Simon Phipps Dismisses Novell’s Dismissive Remarks About Sun Microsystems
  • 04.13.08 Former Linspire CEO Predicts Damaging Truths After His Microsoft Deal
  • 04.21.08 The Linux Foundation and Novell (Plus Microsoft)
  • 04.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Business Overview, New Activities and SCO
  • 05.14.08 Novell Starts Buying Its Own Stock (Sign of Weakness)
  • 05.14.08 Richard ‘Microsoft’ Steels’ Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • 05.16.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Novell Board Shuffles, Deals and Partnerships
  • 05.30.08 Financial Games: Novell’s Main Strength?
  • 06.01.08 “Driving Microsoft’s ‘Community’ strategy around Open Source Software”
  • 06.01.08 Novell’s Bold Mission to Clean Up ‘Unlicensed’ GNU/Linux
  • 06.04.08 Novell Slams Free (Gratis) GNU/Linux
  • 06.07.08 Further Financial Analysis of Novell (Looking Grim, Despite Grooming)
  • 06.11.08 Microsoft Mixed-sourcing (Hybrid), Just Like Novell
  • 06.19.08 GNU/Linux Users Locked Out of Olympics, Need Silverlight 2.0
  • 06.22.08 Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part II)
  • 06.22.08 Novell Criticism Comes from Red Hat Too
  • 06.26.08 Quick Mention: Might ASUS Finally Dump Xandros for Debian GNU/Linux?
  • 06.26.08 Ian Bruce (Not Lowry): Microsoft/Novell PR?
  • 06.30.08 Novell Sleeps with Windows Vista Again
  • 07.02.08 Xandros-Linspire-Microsoft Marriage is Now Official
  • 07.07.08 Novell is a Microsoft Company in the Making
  • 07.09.08 Microsoft and Citrix Celebrate Love After Vendor Capture (Xen)
  • 07.15.08 Novell Loses Business to Its ‘Partner’ Microsoft
  • 07.17.08 Why Microsoft Resorts to Dirty Tricks with Virtualisation
  • 07.23.08 What Lies Inside…
  • 07.31.08 Sam Ramji, the Man Who Wants to Politely Steal from GNU/Linux
  • 08.08.08 What Borland Can Teach Critics About Novell
  • 08.09.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Virtualisation, Security and Legacy
  • 08.16.08 SCO Also Used to Contribute to Linux, Just Like Novell
  • 08.20.08 Increased Investment in Microsoft SUSE
  • 08.21.08 Novell Resentment: OSI, Others Begin to Wake Up
  • 08.23.08 Novell Befriends the School’s Bully, Fights GNU/Linux with MS-IP/Ballnux
  • 08.23.08 CRN, DaniWeb® Think Novell Could Be Microsoft One Day
  • 08.27.08 Novell Gets Close to Linux Foundation, Microsoft Gets Closer to Novell
  • 08.28.08 Novell to Triple Collaborations with Microsoft
  • 08.28.08 Who Ever Said Novell Was a “Prince”?
  • 08.29.08 Novell, the Microsoft Windows Company
  • 08.31.08 Novell’s “Time Would be Better Spent in Doing Something Positive”
  • 09.02.08 IBM Influence in Novell
  • 09.04.08 Novell Could be Lying to Investors, Still Depends on Microsoft
  • 09.07.08 BSA and Novell ♥ Software Patents, Microsoft
  • 09.07.08 The GNU/Linux Kidnap Theory (Microsoft, 2005)
  • 09.10.08 Maritz and Tucci’s Microsoft Slog Against VMware
  • 09.12.08 Novell Picks (Virtualisation) Side: Software Patents and Microsoft
  • 09.12.08 How Novell Learned to Stop Worrying About Microsoft FUD and Started Embracing It
  • 09.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Netware, Virtualisation, and Novellers
  • 09.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Another Load of Novell News
  • 09.24.08 Novell: From StopTheFUD to JoinTheFUD
  • 10.07.08 Microsoft Influence in Novell’s Management Increases, More .NET Focus
  • 10.08.08 Latest Evidence of ‘Novell | Microsoft Axis’
  • 10.08.08 Novell (NOVL) and Über Analysts
  • 10.12.08 Question Revisited: Is Novell’s OpenSUSE Free Software?
  • 10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Miscellaneous Novell News
  • 10.29.08 SUSE Linux to be Powered by More Microsoft .NET?
  • 10.29.08 More Interesting Prebundling Moves
  • 10.31.08 With ‘Partners’ Like These, Who Needs Competitors?
  • 11.13.08 How Long Before Everyone Accepts That Novell is with Microsoft More Than with Linux?
  • 11.28.08 Novell Linux: Another Platform (as in Kernel) for Windows?
  • 12.02.08 FOSDEM 2009: Sponsored by Microsoft Partner
  • 12.07.08 Novell’s Financial Results for Q4: Synopsis
  • 12.20.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: SLES, SLED, Novell Personnel and Sentegrity/Xandros
  • 01.01.09 Novell’s OpenOffice.org FUD Rallies Disruptors
  • 01.08.09 Microsoft May Conquer Novell from the Inside
  • 01.17.09 Novell Cozies Up to Microsoft SharePoint
  • 02.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Heaps of Novell News
  • 02.04.09 Microsoft Invades Another Free Software Conference: AsteriskWorld
  • 02.05.09 Novell UK Chief on Microsoft’s Role in Novell’s Future
  • 02.05.09 Novell Layoffs May Have Not Been Announced Yet
  • 02.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: KDE 4.2 in OpenSUSE, DELL Picks SLED
  • 02.11.09 Large-Scale Novell Layoffs Imminent
  • 02.13.09 Novell’s Patent Deal — Like SCO’s Lawsuits — a Miserable Failure
  • 02.21.09 Novell’s Jaffe on Novell’s Linux Strategy: .NET, Mono, Moonlight, Nothing About OpenSUSE
  • 02.21.09 Novell News Summary – Part IV: SCO Update, Report Coming Up, Teaming Deal
  • 02.27.09 Novell CEO Loots the Company: Receives Huge Bonuses for Failed Business
  • 03.05.09 Final Analysis of Novell’s Q1 Results and Consequences
  • 03.07.09 SUSE is Slowing Down
  • 03.10.09 Tough Time for Proprietary Software Companies (Novell, Microsoft, and Apple)
  • 03.11.09 Open Source Business Conference 2009 Opened by Steve Ballmer’s Partners
  • 03.14.09 Microsoft’s Path of LAMP Destruction: From Novell to Apache (the L to the A)
  • 03.18.09 Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together
  • 03.25.09 How Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software Patents
  • 03.26.09 Why Microsoft Has Already Crashed OSBC 2009
  • 03.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Aside from the SLE* 11 Release, Xandros and Presto Coverage
  • 04.04.09 Novell Offshores Some of Its SUSE Operations to East Asia
  • 04.04.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, Finance, Netware, GroupWise, Partners, Hardware, and Marketing
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
  • 04.22.09 Is Microsoft Paying Russia to Take Schools off GNU/Linux and Halt Antitrust Action?
  • 04.23.09 Novell’s Business Strategy Called “Murky, Messy”
  • 04.29.09 Hewlett-Packard: You Will Pay Microsoft for Any Laptop You Buy
  • 04.29.09 The Big Australian Press: “Microsoft Has Ruled Out Buying a Linux Company”
  • 05.06.09 Novell General Manager: Microsoft Won’t Bid for Novell, But You Can Never Say Never
  • 05.08.09 Moblin Turns to Ballnux
  • 05.22.09 If Flash is More Open Than Moonlight, Does That Make Microsoft Moonlight Proprietary?
  • 05.29.09 Novell Outsources Provo (Utah) Staff
  • 05.29.09 Novell Falls 5% After News of Lowered Sales, Key Products Failing to Produce Profit
  • 05.30.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: More Moblin, SLES, and SLED
  • 06.06.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Videos, Some Moblin, and Just a Little More
  • 06.10.09 Novell Develops for Windows Development Tools
  • 06.12.09 Novell and Microsoft Make It Clear: They Want to Replace GNU/Linux with Patent Royalties
  • 06.16.09 Novell and Xandros Are Promoting Windows, Again
  • 06.20.09 The Rumours May be True: Novell’s Financial Officer Talks About Selling Parts of Novell
  • 06.22.09 Reader’s Article: Mono and (Anti)Trust
  • 06.24.09 On Novell and Turnaround
  • 07.16.09 Update on Novell and Microsoft’s Virtualisation Pact
  • 07.16.09 Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
  • 07.17.09 Novell’s Contributions to Linux Drop Sharply
  • 07.22.09 Microsoft and Novell Love Microsoft’s Self-serving Linux Patch (Updated)
  • 07.27.09 Novell is Insulting Ubuntu/Canonical Again
  • 07.29.09 Why is Acer Curtailing Its Linux Efforts?
  • 08.10.09 The Google-Microsoft Tensions Revisited
  • 08.28.09 Why SUSE Engineers Should Abandon Novell and Start Their Own Company
  • 09.10.09 More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
  • 09.10.09 Miguel de Icaza Joins Microsoft
  • 09.11.09 Trouble in Novell/Microsoft Paradise
  • 09.20.09 Microsoft Profit is Down Sharply, But Ballmer Profit is Up
  • 09.20.09 Novell, Microsoft, and the “Microsoft Hater” Daemonisation Label
  • 09.23.09 Novell UK: It’s Like Singing to Empty Tables
  • 09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
  • 10.03.09 Reader’s Contribution: The Register Sells Out to Microsoft and Novell
  • 10.11.09 OpenSUSE Adds to Novell’s Hostility Towards the Free Software Foundation
  • 11.10.09 Novell and Microsoft Expand Relationship to Boost Windows, .NET, Visual Studio, Linux Patent Tax
  • 11.11.09 Novell’s Work Popular… in Microsoft Blogs
  • 11.13.09 eWEEK (Ziff-Davis) Sells Out to Promote Microsoft/Novell Lies
  • 11.20.09 CodePlex is Not Great: How Microsoft Poisons Everything
  • 11.23.09 Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars
  • 12.05.09 Novell Keeps Drowning, Reveal Financial Results
  • 12.09.09 Novell’s Channel Breaks Further, Novell Loses Over $200,000,000 in 2009 (Fiscal)
  • 12.15.09 Management Exodus at Novell
  • 12.16.09 “Things Are Going Downhill at Novell These Days”
  • 12.19.09 Moonlight and Hyper-V Still Novell-Only and SUSE-Only in Some Ways
  • 12.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Novell Drives Nowhere Special
  • 01.09.10 Ximian Founder Quits Novell
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Plugs in the Press and SCO Case Galore
  • 01.16.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Minor Developments, Major Security Problems, Brainshare in Amsterdam
  • 01.31.10 Novell Loses Executive Vice President and Community Manager
  • 02.03.10 Relationships Map
  • 02.11.10 Novell/Microsoft and the Funding of Pinta’s (Mono) Developer
  • 02.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO Updates, Financial Results Are Near
  • 02.14.10 Novell More of a Reflection of Microsoft as Weeks Go By
  • 02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, Brainshare 2010, Proprietary Products, SCO, Virtualisation, and Security
  • 03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
  • 03.04.10 Simon Phipps: “Seems Even With Microsoft’s Support Novell Couldn’t Cut It”
  • 03.07.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SCO Case Resumes, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hits the Headlines as Novell Makes Announcement
  • 03.07.10 Vulture Fund Still the Only Bidder for Novell
  • 03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse With Google, Finance, Virtualisation and More
  • 03.22.10 Paul Singer Still Goes After Novell
  • 03.24.10 Novell Still Avoids Talking With Public About Being Bought
  • 03.25.10 Novell for Sale
  • 03.27.10 BrainShare 2010
  • 03.31.10 Consequences of UNIX up for Sale
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE and IBM Cuddle, Android’s Patent Problem in Asia
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part III: Pulse, ZENworks, NetWare, and idOnDemand
  • 04.28.10 Novell Keeps Losing Market Share, So Its Future Still Looks Grim
  • 05.02.10 Novell Adds Support for Vista 7, .NET Applications, Winforms, and Microsoft WPF While Its Own Business Erodes
  • 05.07.10 Eben Moglen: Microsoft Would Call Its GNU/Linux Distribution ‘Novell’
  • 05.13.10 Novell News Drought
  • 05.15.10 Reuters: “Novell Has Put Itself up for Sale”
  • 05.15.10 SAP Could Buy Novell Just Like It Bought Sybase
  • 05.19.10 Novell Might be Sold This Month
  • 05.28.10 How to Kill a Software Company (Picture)
  • 06.10.10 IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle
  • 06.10.10 It’s Final: Novell Owns UNIX. Now, Who Will Buy Novell With UNIX?
  • 06.13.10 Translation of Novell’s Statement Regarding the SCO Case (Updated)
  • 08.11.10 Novell Spreads .NET, Receives Backing From Microsoft Boosters
  • 08.28.10 Novell is Not Well, Downgraded
  • 08.30.10 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Says VMware Takeover Would Suit Novell (Although Not Sidestep Microsoft)
  • 09.15.10 Novell’s SUSE Believed to be Bought by Former Microsoft Executives
  • 09.24.10 Novell Down 7% Today, Buyers Deemed Unsuitable, and Sale Value Estimated at $2.8 Billion
  • 10.03.10 SUSE is Getting More Restrictive and Virtualisation-centered Ahead of Expected Sale to VMB_ware
  • 10.12.10 Novell is Very Focused on Fog Computing So Far This Month
  • 11.22.10 SUSE, OpenSUSE, and Why AttachMSFT Won’t Care
  • 11.22.10 It’s Not SCO Versus Novell, It’s SCO and Novell
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part I: Novell Was Bought by Microsoft, Argue Pundits
  • 11.29.10 Novell’s Last Week – Part V: AttachMSFT Might Sell UNIX
  • 12.15.10 Novell, OIN, and AttachMSFT: Why It Confirms Novell Was Trouble All Along
  • 12.19.10 Jeff ‘Bison Slayer’ Hawn Forgets OpenSUSE
  • 12.21.10 2006 Déjà Vu: OpenSUSE FAQ as Damage Control
  • 12.29.10 Worst of 2010 Awards
  • 01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage
  • 01.19.11 Benjamin Orndorff From Microsoft/Gates and Ellis Represents the CTPN Patents Cartel
  • 02.04.11 Elliott and AttachMSFT Got in Touch Before Elliott’s Bid for Novell
  • 02.21.11 GWAVACon 2011 and BrainShare 2011 Not Dead (Yet)
  • 02.24.11 Novell: Pushing Proprietary and Paying Microsoft for Free
  • 03.01.11 Novell’s (Microsoft-Funded) Anti-Ubuntu Propaganda
  • 05.02.11 What Happens to OpenSUSE and Novell’s Software Patents Now?
  • 05.03.11 Novell is Similar to Nortel
  • 05.10.11 Novell’s Legal Cases in Attachmate’s Hands
  • 05.10.11 Steve Ballmer as King of Novell
  • 05.22.11 Novell’s Takeover Smells Ever More Dodgy as Wizard Parent LLC Provides Shady Financing
  • 05.23.11 SD Times: “Attachmate (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner) buys Novell. Microsoft gives gobs of money to Attachmate. Attachmate whacks the Mono team.”
  • 07.13.11 Ken Muir (Vice President) Leaves Novell
  • 07.22.11 Remnants of Novell
  • 08.28.11 Having Trashed Novell, Paul Singer Moves on to Brocade
  • 09.05.11 Shrinking of Novell
  • 10.20.11 Novell’s Case Against Microsoft Unrelated to ‘Microvell’ and ‘AttachMSFT’
  • 12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell
  • 01.01.12 The Better Side of Novell
  • 07.03.12 Banking Sector Suffers From Patents Too, Goldman Sachs Getting Well Armed With Patents
  • 01.09.13 Novell Board Sued for Selling Out
  • 07.09.13 Microsoft Linux (SUSE) is Pushing Microsoft-controlled Restricted Boot, Advancing It on Servers Too
  • 04.29.14 Novell Receives One Last Punch From Microsoft After Microsoft Took Novell’s Patents
  • 05.03.14 Novell Continues to Damage GNU/Linux
  • 03.25.18 Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
  • 04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
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