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TeamDrive enables users to work across the Internet, securely and easily. Whether you’re working as a team, mobile or between your home work station and your company: while guaranteeing your privacy, every single file and document, always up-to-date and even offline, is readily availab...May. 19, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 773
IBM and Novell have piled on the bankruptcy trustee’s move last week to put SCO into liquidation, a move made the day before the 10th Circuit heard SCO’s appeal asking for the summary judgment awarding ownership of Unix to Novell to be overturned. Timing is everything but it’s unclear ...
The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the formal launch of Linux.com. The
Foundation took over stewardship of the site in March, at which time it
began soliciting input from the community to help define ...
MontaVista Software has announced that its new MontaVista Linux 6 is optimized for OMAP35x processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). MontaVista Linux 6 is a revolutionary new approach to embedded Linux development that is comprised of Market Specific Distributions (MSD), the...
Larry Augustin, who hasn’t had a honest job since VA Linux hit the wall and he took his IPO winnings and turned venture capitalist, is now interim CEO of SugarCRM, the commercial open source CRM ISV. The founding CEO John Roberts resigned the post and his board seat to chase other oppo...
Bowing to recession-induced exigencies, IGEL Technology, the third-largest thin client vendor by revenue last year according to IDC, has introduced a virtualized version of its new Linux-based Universal Desktop firmware to give people a no-cost way to evaluate the look-and-feel of the ...
Intel and Novell said Thursday that they're going to work together on getting OEMs and ODMs to adopt Moblin, the Intel-created open source Linux operating system built specifically for Atom-based netbooks and MIDs.
This guide from thawte will help you understand SSL certificates, how they operate and their application. By making use of an SSL certificate on your web server, you can securely collect sensitive information online, and increase business by giving your customers confidence that their ...
This guide from thawte will introduce you to our Starter PKI Program – it explains how it works as well as the benefits it offers. This guide will also point you to a dummy company on our website where you can “test drive” the Program. 
In this white paper from thawte, learn about how digital certificates with SGC technology are able to step up encryption levels for certain browsers to 128-bits. A discussion of the business benefits of deploying SGC certificates is also included. 
Learn how you can build customer confidence around Internet security. This guide from thawte will explain the various ways in which your business can benefit if you secure your Microsoft Internet Information Services (MSIIS) web server with a Thawte digital certificate.
This educational webinar from Novell will provide .NET ISVs with an overview of how to port .NET-based applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise. Mono is the open source, cross-platform .NET application framework. Sponsored by Novell, it provides all the necessary software to develop and r...
Extended Validation SSL delivers the acknowledged industry standard for the highest level of online identity assurance processes for SSL certificate issuance. In this white paper from thawte, find out how the EV standard increases the visibility of authentication status through the use...
This educational webinar from Novell will provide ISVs with an overview of the UNIX application porting process to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. This tutorial will cover the required steps to successfully port your applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise including Application Scoping, Portin...
This guide from thawte will show you how Code Signing Certificates are used to secure code that can be downloaded from the Internet. You will also learn how these certificates operate with different software platforms. 
This webinar from Novell will provide Linux ISVs an overview of the Linux Standard Base (a working group of the Linux Foundation) and a tutorial on how to easily port applications to SUSE Linux Enterprise using such tools as the Linux Standard Base Database Navigator and Linux Standard...
This guide from thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. This guide also looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company and how your customers can tell if a site is secure. 
Now is the time for Independent Software Vendors to join the SUSE Linux Enterprise ISV Partner Program. In this white paper, you will learn how you can expand your market and your partnership with Novell by developing on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 while benefiting from the services and r...
“Cloud computing technology is evolving rapidly, giving users many more choices for where and how to develop, test and deploy applications on the cloud, depending on the level of security, regulatory compliance, scalability and cost savings desired,” said Thorsten von Eicken, RightScal...
With Sun’s destiny uncertain – and its users undoubtedly nail-bitingly anxious – Dell, which is not in great shape itself, is looking to land a few competitive body blows on the stumbling giant. It’s offering to migrate Sun customers from their legacy Unix systems to its Nehalem-based ...
The Linux Foundation is adding the openSUSE Build Service to the Linux Developer Network (LDN). It’s the only development platform that can be used to package software for all the major Linux distributions as well as provide transparent infrastructure for the creation of the entire ope...
RightScale, the cloud manager, says it can now fully support Ubuntu Server with its Cloud Management Platform on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2. Since Ubuntu is such a fast-growing Linux distribution, RightScale anticipates that the Ubuntu community will be increasingly activ...
The Linux kernel apparently does in fact infringe on Microsoft’s patents – at least that’s certainly the way it looks to the casual observer because TomTom has agreed to yank the offending widgetry out of its GPS devices over the next two years. That’s part of the deal it made with Mic...
TomTom, the Dutch GPS player that Microsoft sued a couple of weeks ago for patent infringement specifically charging its Linux kernel with offending, has not only countersued, it’s lining up allies in a move that practically guarantees a bloody fight. It’s joined the IBM-inspired Linux...
Penguin Computing has started peddling a couple of fully integrated Nvidia GPU-based clusters targeted at technical workgroup computing. Their CPUs are AMD Shanghais. The Linux-based Altus 1702 cluster has four twin 1U compute nodes, four Tesla S1070 GPUs, Gigabit Ethernet and Penguin’...
RightScale has announced full support for the popular Ubuntu distribution as part of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. The Ubuntu software development community can now use RightScale to deploy and manage cloud applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with compl...
The Linux Foundation is going to take over SourceForge's Linux.com site and its flagging editorial, intending to change the focus from news to collaboration with the community creating the content. Terms were not disclosed but SourceForge, the remains of the old VA Linux Systems, which...
Concurrent, the folks with the real-time Linux technologies, is targeting its new RedHawk Embedded Linux, a complete software development environment, at embedded applications in a wide-range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial automation, manufacturi...
Novell's net income skidded 36% to $11 million, or three cents a share, in the January quarter, its first fiscal quarter, on revenues down $16 million, or 6.9%, to $215 million. On a non-GAAP basis the company beat the Street by a penny at seven cents a share, or $24 million. It compla...
Well, it’s finally happened. Microsoft, which has only sued two other companies for patent infringement in its whole life, is exercising its patent rights over Linux and suing TomTom, the Dutch-based portable GPS device house, for ignoring its pleas to license its patents like other GP...
High-performance databases are optimized for transaction processing and used by several industries around the world, notably financial services and health care. They are more commonly available on 32-bit Unix platforms (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux). The trend is to 64-bit-enable the...
Open Invention Network (OIN), the three-year-old IP league started by IBM to buy up patents to deter Microsoft from asserting its patents against Linux, apparently got bored waiting for Microsoft to make a hostile move. So to fill its idle time and justify its existence, it's concocted...
There's a new release of OpenSolaris out – OpenSolaris 2008.11 – out a whole three weeks before the end of 2008. There was a 2008.05 release, aka Project Indiana, in May but that wasn’t as commercial or production-oriented as this one. Both run only on x86 machines, not Sun's own Sparc...
The two-year anniversary of the Novell-Microsoft alliance that scandalized the open source community passed quietly enough earlier this month. The pair waited a couple of weeks to mark the occasion and then said that in the second year of their arrangement they added upwards of 200 new...
db4objects has sold its open source object database business, native to Java and .NET, to Versant to focus on Servo, a newfangled user data management service. Price was not disclosed. The company will now be known as Servo Software Inc. Versant traffics in specialized data management ...
To no one's particular surprise, Novell missed its quarter. Wall Street thought it could turn six cents a share on $249.78 million. Instead it lost $16.3 million, five cents a share, on flat year-over-year revenues of $245 million in its fourth fiscal quarter ended October 31. It lost ...
