Peter Galli

In a wide-ranging state-of-the-company update, Novell Inc. executives this week detailed the vendors embrace of Linux across its product lines, saying that good progress has been made but that much more remains to be done. Novell CEO Jack Messman told several thousand attendees at the BrainShare show here that while the company had fulfilled its […]

The free standards group is embarking on an aggressive campaign to recruit ISVs as members. The FSG, which recently appointed Arthur Tyde—former CEO and co-founder of Linuxcare, now known as Levanta Inc.—as its chief technology officer, provides the LSB (Linux Standards Base) specification. The group last year released Version 2.0 of the specification with the […]

The next version of Novell Inc.s Linux Desktop will include new metadata search technology and other capabilities that company executives said they believe will give it the muscle it needs to take on Windows in the consumer market. Among the new features Novell hopes will draw the masses to the new desktop operating system, due […]

While many customers have tentatively embraced Novell Inc.s latest foray into the world of open source, the company still faces stiff challenges in trying to persuade NetWare customers to choose SuSE Linux over Windows or Red Hat Inc.s Red Hat Linux. To ease such a transition to SuSE Linux, the Waltham, Mass., company earlier this […]

Burst.com Inc., the santa Rosa, Calif., developer of video and audio delivery software, has reached an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to settle its antitrust litigation against the Redmond, Wash., software maker. The company last week said Microsoft had paid a one-time fee of $60 million for a nonexclusive license to Bursts international patent portfolio. Tom […]

SALT LAKE CITY—While Microsoft still has the monopoly on the desktop market with its Windows operating system, Novell is readying new features and functionality that it believes will propel its Novell Linux Desktop offering into the mass market. The current Novell Linux Desktop 9, which was released last November, is targeted not at the mass […]

The Free Standards Group, which has just appointed Arthur Tyde—former CEO and co-founder of Linuxcare, now known as Levanta Inc.—as its chief technology officer, is embarking on an aggressive campaign to recruit independent software vendors as members. The FSG, which provides the Linux Standards Base specification, last year released Version 2.0 of the Linux Standard […]

IBM is looking to drive reluctant, cash-strapped ISVs to embrace Linux with a worldwide initiative to promote development and certification of applications for Novell Inc.s SuSE Linux on IBMs eServer and middleware platforms. The program, launched this week in conjunction with Novell, of Waltham, Mass., gives interested ISVs access to technical resources, expertise and hands-on […]

Novell and IBM are working together to address the need to grow the application environment around Linux by giving their ISVs the tools and resources to easily deploy Linux-based applications. The two firms have come together to form a worldwide initiative designed to accelerate the development and certification of ISV applications for SuSE Linux on […]

Burst.com Inc., the Santa Rosa, Calif., developer of video and audio delivery software, has reached an agreement in principle with Microsoft Corp. to settle its current antitrust litigation against the Redmond, Wash., software maker. In a statement posted to its Web site Friday, Burst said Microsoft had paid a one-time fee of $60 million for […]

As the open-source and Linux faithful flock to Boston for the annual East Coast LinuxWorld Conference this week, they are going to be met with news that Novell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both plan to announce the open-sourcing of some new technology at the event. Novell, which has embraced Linux across all its product lines, […]

IBM is encouraging ISVs to port their software that runs primarily on x86 hardware to all its hardware platforms through “Chiphopper,” which refers to the chips hopping from its x86 to zSeries and Power architectures. “Chiphopper will automate that process for ISVs, and we expect this to dramatically increase the number of ISVs that support […]