What does Novell buyout offer mean for open source?
Posted by: Leah Rosin
Hedge Fund Elliott Associates LP, which holds an 8.5% stake in Novell, offered to buy the rest of the company for about $1.8 billion on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. This...
Hedge Fund Elliott Associates LP, which holds an 8.5% stake in Novell, offered to buy the rest of the company for about $1.8 billion on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. This...
As part of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Ca. today, Novell announced the availability of MonoDevelop 2.0 and Mono 2.4. MonoDevelop 2.0 is an open source integrated development environment for programming with C# and other languages. Mono 2.4 is the latest release of the open source,...
This week I went and picked up two ornaments from my local "Giving Tree," did some shopping, and returned some gifts to be distributed to children in need. This is the third year that I've participated in this community giving project, and this year I noticed that the tree was absolutely covered...
Linux is alive and well at Novell Inc. In its year-end fiscal report yesterday, the Waltham, Mass.-based company reported that open source products, primarily Linux, rose $34.8 million or 37% to $128.8 million in 2008. ...
Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. wrapped up a whirlwind three-week U.S. tour promoting SUSE Linux Enterprise yesterday with a packed presentation at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, a...
Sometimes stories about customer problems have happy endings. One day after publication, the Novell ZenWorks problem that I blogged about Sept. 17 appears to be on its way to resolution. Not that resolution was speedy; the issue was the topic of numerous...
Sometimes the latest is not the greatest.
Just ask Grant Nickle, IT director at Louisville, Ky.-based Underwriters Safety & Claims. An avid...
Novell Inc.’s recent coup of achieving bidirectional virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V -- SUSE Linux Enterprise can run as a guest on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on SUSE -- is a huge step forward for...
