Tag archive: Suse Linux

Microsoft and Attachmate have announced a five-year extension to an agreement that has the Redmond software giant reselling SUSE Linux certificates to business customers—along with a promise not to sue those customers if Microsoft ever decided to take Linux to court. The deal is an extension of a controversial deal Microsoft made with Novell back in 2006—that deal was worth about $240 million; the value of the new deal is open… Read More

Earlier this month, the hedge fund Elliot Associates offered $1.8 million to take over storied software maker Novell—Elliot already owns about 8.5 percent of Novell, but believes the stock has underperformed and that it can maximize the company's value to its investors if it takes over Novell and “restructures” the company…which is usually industry slang for tearing the company apart and selling the pieces to the… Read More

Hedge fund Elliott Associates has made an unsolicited $1.8 billion offer to take former software giant Novell private, in a move apparently motivated to maximize the company's value to investors a series of strategy changes and acquisitions have failed to put Novell back into the top tier of technology companies. According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Elliott believes Novell's stock has significantly… Read More

Graphics developer Nvidia has been talking for years about harnessing the processing power of its GPU designs for purposes other than splattering alien entrails across gamers' screens, and the company has finally unveiled its plans at the SuperCompute 2008 with the GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which claims to deliver 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation…yet still maintain the workstation price… Read More

Over a year and a half ago, Microsoft and Novell entered into a wide-ranging pact to improve interoperability between SUSE Linux and Windows operating systems and technologies. The agreement made Novell's SUSE Linux distribution—mainly intended for enterprise customers—the “preferred” version of Linux from Microsoft's point of view, and involved patent cross-licensing and an agreement not to pursue each… Read More

Back in April, Redmond software giant Microsoft announced it would be taking on Adobe's market-dominated Flash technology with Silverlight, a new interactive platform for delivering "rich media experiences" across browsers and platforms. Today, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its Silverlight browser plug-in , and has announced it will be working with Novell to offer support for Linux. "Our expectations for… Read More

Lenovo and Novell announced today that Lenovo would begin offering ThinkPad T-series notebook computer with Novell's SUSE Enterprise Desktop 10 Linux operating system pre-installed as an alternative to Microsoft Windows. The ThinkPad T-series notebooks are aimed at business users, although the the Linux-equipped notebooks will also be available to individual customers. The companies say the systems should hit the market in the fourth… Read More

In an interview with Fortune magazine (available online via the CNN Web site) Microsoft's VP of intellectual property Horacio Gutierrez and Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith make the bold assertion that free and open source software (FOSS)—including the Linux operating system—violate some 245 Microsoft patents, and the company believes open source distributors and end users should pay royalties on the… Read More

Just a few days after revealing the company will soon begin offering Ubuntu Linux as a pre-installed operating system option on selected computers, Dell has signed on to Microsoft and Novell's SUSE Linux collaboration project. The announcement makes Dell the first major systems vendor to buy into the two companies' efforts to improve interoperability between Windows operating systems and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.… Read More

TabletKiosk has taken the wraps off two new UMPCs, its eo TufTab v7112XT and Sahara TufTab i310XT. The new tablet-based UMPCs offer a semi-rugged casing protecting the systems from moisture, particles, vibration, temperature extremes, and the bumps and drops of mobile use—and if you need the latest and greatest, the v7112XT packs Windows Vista. The eo TufTab v7112XT is available in either black or white, weighs just under two pounds,… Read More

If you consider yourself penguin-powered, computer maker Dell wants to hear from you. The Round Rock, Texas direct marketer is consider offering Linux as a factory-installed operating system option on some computers. But as any Linux aficionado will tell you, even pondering Linux can be like opening a can of worms, with different advocates favoring different LInux distributions depending on the work they do and, oftem, their political… Read More

Earlier this month, Microsoft and Novell inked a wide-ranging agreement through at least the year 2012, with the goal of making Microsoft's Windows and Novell's SUSE Linux operating systems work together better. Part of the agreement involves Microsoft and Novell cross-licensing patented technologies to each other. Since the agreement, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other company executives have ruffled feathers of the Linux… Read More

Microsoft and Novell has announced a broad, multi-year agreement to improve interoperability between Microsoft's Windows operating systems and Novell's SUSE Linux. Under the deal, the companies will pay each other to cross-license patented technologies and work together to ensure and improve the interoperability of Windows and SUSE Linux—and Microsoft will officially recommend SUSE Linux Enterprise for customers who want… Read More

The move means that handset makers have access to a ready-made user interface and developer tools for Linux-based phones, which should lead to a wider choice of mobile devices for firms. Qtopia Phone Edition, due for release early next year, is a user interface for phones that runs on top of embedded Linux. The software is similar to the Qtopia PDA Edition seen on Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus handheld, and already features in… Read More