Monday, November 08, 2004

Well, this is breaking large today with lots of press.  Novell has released its Linux Desktop 9 powered by Novell SUSE Linux.  It is aimed at the corporate market and it's only $50 per seat plus support, etc.  It is only available through Novell resellers, not directly to consumers.

For the official Novell particulars see:

For lots of press coverage, reviews, etc, see:

All this follows the recent release of SUSE Professional 9.2 and the apparent sacking of Chris Stone.  Lots of goings on in Novell penguin land.


12:15:06 PM    

Yahoo! News - Novell OKs $536 Mln Microsoft Settlement - Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) on Monday said it had reached a settlement with software maker Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) over antitrust issues in which Microsoft will pay it $536 million in cash, sending Novell shares 11 percent higher in pre-market trading.

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In addition, Novell said it planned to file a new antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft tied to decade-old competitive practices involving Novell's WordPerfect word processing software.


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