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As competing Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu and Novell SUSE snap up most of the headlines in the Linux world, Mandriva hopes to grab some attention for itself with the release of its latest operating system. A news post on the Mandriva Club web side, a Mandriva-supported user group, reveals Mandriva Linux 2008 […]

North Rhine-Westphalia has selected Novell for the supply of its IT infrastructure. Novell already supports 300,000 students in the states of Bavaria and Thuringia; the new deal will add another 560,000 students and thousands of employees. It’s not clear how many of the students actually will use the desktop Linux software.
The larger North Rhine-Westphalia contract […]

Now that the computer industry has its first accounting of how many patents Microsoft says are violated by open-source software, the question for many tech vendors is how aggressively the software giant will begin enforcement. And judging from the reaction in the blogosphere, the new disclosures inspire fear.
Microsoft has already begun collecting payments and gaining […]

Its worries were aired on Friday in the delayed regulatory filing of its annual report for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2006.
The 144-page document posted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Web site contained redacted versions of Novell’s business, patent and technology agreements with Microsoft, which it signed in November 2006.
While much of […]

Novell has published details of its landmark November 2006 Linux partnership agreements with Microsoft.
Novell published on Friday redacted versions of the three agreements it signed with Microsoft in its annual 10K filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, providing the public with its first detailed look into a deal that some see as critical […]