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.).
Using imbeciles who lie to cops and then dox cops (and already have arrest record and court documents wherein they admit being stoned in front of the cops)
Who needs RAs (layoffs, which have been rebranded as "buyouts" like pink slips are generous "gifts") when workers can have their butts kicked every day and WARN Act reporting thresholds are never approached?
Someone should ask Linus Torvalds or his boss (Linux Foundation) if they deem slop, which nobody audits, trustworthy enough to add to every computer out there running the Linux kernel
We're entering bizarre times when layoffs are said to be "down" (according to the regime that suffered a 'bloodbath' in the election) because companies quit using the term "layoffs"
