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.).
Owing to corrupt management the EPO has resorted to corporate crime or organised crime designed to benefit large corporations. Who will pay the price? Everybody else in Europe.
"when you are doing your computing you must not entrust that to somebody else's server because users including you should have control over their own computing but you can never have control over what somebody else's server does because somebody else installs software in that computer and configures it and thus decides what computing it is going to do."
