Novell posts 3Q profit as it cut costs

Novell Inc., which sells computer-networking software and technology services, said Thursday it swung to a third-quarter profit from a year earlier as it cut operating expenses by 20 percent.

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Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trial

A federal appeals court on Monday reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell Inc.

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SCO ordered to pay Novell for software royalties

The SCO Group has been ordered to pay Novell Inc. more than $2.5 million in royalties in a dispute over the Unix computer operating system.

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Court Continues Microsoft Antitrust Case

Two antitrust claims brought against Microsoft Corp. by Novell Inc. can proceed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

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Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell

Dell Inc. has agreed to work with Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. under an alliance the rival software makers formed last year to make it easier for the Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together, the companies said Sunday.

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Microsoft Backs Novell's Linux Platform

Microsoft Corp. has embraced Novell Inc.'s open-source software platform, forming a technological truce between two longtime antagonists who want to make it easier for the still-dominant Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together.

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Novell to Release New Linux Distribution

Novell Inc. will start shipping Release 10 of its Suse Linux on Monday, marking the first full new release of Suse Linux since August 2004, according to the company's president and chief executive officer.

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openSUSE 11.2 will be released in two months, but the recently released openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 Reloaded images give us a good preview of the upcoming 11.2 version.

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Novell has been locked in a legal battle with The SCO Group over ownership of the copyright. SCO said the ruling paves the way for resumption of the court case.

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CDC Admits Withholding In H1N1

Within the last two weeks, the Center for Disease Control issued their H1N1 educational guidelines. This is a technical report issued to all levels of education throughout the United States. This report details what schools should look for in both their students and in staff.

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Novell developer Aaron Bockover has developed a Firefox plugin called Moonshine that leverages Moonlight's media codecs to play conventional streaming Windows Media content at websites like C-SPAN.

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Here I thought it was impressive that I won a regional science fair at the age of 12. But now comes the story of M.Lavinashree, a girl from the Tamil Nadu state in India, who has passed the Microsoft Certified Professional exam at the age of 9.

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Brockmeier said the Novell version of OpenOffice.org includes some features not currently found in the upstream OpenOffice.org project right now. Among them are performance improvements that are intended to provide better startup speed and less memory when running.

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Besides undergoing comprehensive maintenance, the release brings vast improvements to the KDE 4 Desktop.

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"Sun dropping out of OpenOffice.org development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing" - Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor and talks about KDE/GNOME-unification.

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SCO got off easy... this time. But the next shoe to drop will be if Novell sues Sun over OpenSolaris and Sun invokes the indemnity clause in its agreement with SCO. Then SCO will be on the hook.

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According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux* of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today.

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A peek at openSUSE 11 RC1

I recently upgraded my graphics card and thought it'd be a great opportunity to upgrade the OS as well. So I'm running an unreleased operating system for the first time in my life.

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Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has been accused of agreeing to edit a page on the online encyclopaedia in exchange for a donation. Former Novell chief scientist Jeffrey Merkey says he donated $5,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation in exchange for changes to his Wikipedia entry.

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Having successfully reinvented itself as a Linux company, Novell is now making a substantial portion of its turnover from a single and surprising source - Microsoft. Good on them. Microsoft have plenty of money,

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The long embattled PC Unix vendor SCO has finally gotten the heave-ho from NASDAQ, some two months after filing for bankruptcy and three months after losing a crucial legal copyright struggle with Novell, a company that's morphed over the years into a major distributor of Linux,  …

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What are Red Hat, Novell and Canonical going to have to do in 2008 to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market?

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COMDOM will provide spam filtering solutions for Linux based servers used by large enterprise and ISPs. Redhat and Novell are the two leadng providers of Linux based operating systems.

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As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME's relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.

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Novell today announced a new initiative to increase revenue and profitability for solution providers and consulting partners who specialise in selling Novell® technologies.

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The first ever patent infringement litigation involving Linux. Here s the patent, for those who can look at it without risk. If in doubt, don t. Here s the complaint [PDF].

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OpenSUSE 10.3 includes easy access to proprietary software like Adobe Flash, encrypted DVD support, and codecs for DivX, Xvid and Windows Media files.

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openSUSE is a community-driven project sponsored by Novell – similar to Fedora and RedHat. I haven't used SUSE in quite sometime and with the release of their latest version 10.3, it seemed to be a good time to see how they have progressed.

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For some time, we have not heard anything about the patent sellout which Novell inked with Microsoft 11 months ago.

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Word on the street is that Novell will be laying off 50-60% of its Workgroup division this month, likely toward the middle.

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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE.

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"Kohei Yoshida wrote a long post on the history of Calc Solver an optimization solver module for the Calc component of OpenOffice.org.

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