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.).
A lot of what I said a year ago not only turned out to be correct; it was moreover affirmed by Garrett after he had sworn on the Bible and put himself at risk to his liberty
Down almost 80% since it began [...] The real issue has nothing to do with slop, it is a lack/loss of customers and erosion of the company's theoretical "value"
