Microsoft and Novell to help Wal-Mart deploy Linux
Retailing industry giant Wal-Mart has said that they are taking the services of Microsoft and Novell to provide open source Linux software for use in their business and website operations.
The financial terms of this deal were not revealed to the media. The two companies would now provide Novell’s [...]
Novell launches Vista-Linux comparison site
Novell might be partnering with Microsoft on better interoperability between Linux and Windows OS but they are still continuing with their plans to challenge the upcoming launch of the Vista operating system.
The Linux Company has now launched a new section on their site featuring comparison between the Vista OS and their [...]
Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux is out
Adobe Systems has finally released a version of their Flash Player 9 for the Linux platform. Until now, the Flash Player 9 was only available for Windows OS and the Mac OS.
Emmy Huang, senior product manager at Adobe spoke about this release: “Now the Linux community has full [...]
Sun Microsystems offering cheaper support for Solaris 10 operating system
Sun Microsystems is turning into another potential challenger for the leading Linux distributor in the market Red Hat.
The company has announced that they would be offering competitively priced support in an update of its Solaris 10 operating system.
Sun claims that this support would be offered at [...]
Microsoft now has customers for their Linux Support
Software giant Microsoft has confirmed that they now have three customers for their offer of technical support for Novell Inc.’s SUSE Enterprise Linux.
These new customers include two banks and an insurance company. One of these three is the Credit Suisse Group which is yet to implement SuSE Linux.
As [...]
Jeremy Allison quits Novell as a lead programmer
Jeremy Allison has apparently resigned from his job as a lead programmer in Novell. Reason for his resignation is the recently announced Novell’s partnership with Microsoft.
Novell is collaborating with Microsoft to allow development of new technologies that will allow Windows OS users to operate with Novell’s SuSE Linux.
Jeremy [...]
Novell announces release of OpenSuse 10.2
Linux major Novell has announced the release of the latest edition of their OpenSuse Linux distribution.
Novell said that OpenSuse 10.2 comes with redesigned desktop interfaces from KDE and Gnome. It also features as many as 1,500 other open source software packages.
OpenSuse is available as a free download and includes the [...]
Novell add support for Office 2007 formats in OpenOffice
Novell has announced that they are adding support for the recently launched MS Office 2007 document format to their version of the OpenOffice productivity suite for the Linux operating system.
Novell has provided a modified version of OpenOffice.org 2.02 as a free download for their registered users, which [...]
Microsoft to pay Novell $348 million for their deal
Linux Company Novell has said Microsoft would be making two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million under the recently signed agreement between the two companies.
Initially, Microsoft would be paying Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow them to use its Linux software.
An additional $108 [...]
Sources claim Microsoft and Novell to cooperate
A source close to the discussions being held has said that software giant Microsoft is currently in talks with Novell and the two companies might soon enter into an agreement. This deal might allow Linux software to work with Microsoft’s Windows software.
If this is true, it would be a [...]
