Tag: Microsoft

  • Novell, Microsoft Agree to Disagree

    Novell, Microsoft Agree to Disagree

    Channel Insider Staff

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  • Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’

    Microsoft Clarifies Novell ‘Patent Collaboration Agreement’

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    In an unusually fast turnaround, Microsoft replied within hours to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian’s “Open Letter to the Community from Novell.” In a statement, Microsoft acknowledges that Novell never agreed, as some critics of the deal have claimed, to Microsoft’s vague contentions of patent violations in Linux. In his open letter to the community, Hovsepian… Read more

  • Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims

    Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Claims

    Peter Galli

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    Just weeks after its controversial patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell is hitting out at statements made by Microsoft executives that the deal acknowledges that Linux infringes on its intellectual property. Novell has been under fire from many members of the Linux and open-source community since entering into a set of broad collaboration agreements with… Read more

  • Novell and the Brave New Open-Source World

    Novell and the Brave New Open-Source World

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    For some people, when Novell recently made a deal with Microsoft, it might as well have sold its soul to the devil. At the same time, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been mouthing off about how Microsoft signed the pact because Linux “uses our intellectual property” and Microsoft wanted to “get the appropriate economic return… Read more

  • JBoss, Red Hat See European Market as Bellwether

    JBoss, Red Hat See European Market as Bellwether

    Darryl K. Taft

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    BERLIN—JBoss, a division of Red Hat, says the European market is one of its most successful. Speaking at the JBoss World Berlin conference here, Werner Knoblich, vice president and general manager of the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia) market for Red Hat, said JBoss momentum is very high in the EMEA region. Indeed, there… Read more

  • Microsoft Asking Low End of Channel to Evangelize Live

    Microsoft Asking Low End of Channel to Evangelize Live

    John Hazard

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    Microsoft is expecting PC repair shops and VARs in the low end of the channel to promote use of its Office Live business application suite to SOHOs and small to midsized businesses without servers. The Redmond, Wash., software company released Office Live from beta Nov. 15 with three available editions: Office Live Basic, a free,… Read more