Senforce Technologies, a small Draper, Utah, company that makes software to protect laptops and other wireless devices from security threats, has been bought by Novell. The deal closed Monday. Financial terms weren't disclosed by Waltham, Mass.-based Novell, which was established 24 years ago in Provo, Utah, and still employs 1,600 people at its office building an hour south of Salt Lake City.

With significant departures of a top manager, channel chief, and more key staff, Novell's future in the UK does not look promising

Despite Microsoft's frantic push for C# (through Novell staff), the language is stagnating, but Novell increases its influence in GNOME

Tightening of the belt has seemingly paid off for Novell. The enterprise earned 38 million USD in the last quarter with Linux products. Novell’s turnover for the third quarter this year is lower than that of the third quarter last year, but the figures are still in the black. Novell closed out 2009’s third quarter with a profit of 17 million USD.

Novell is going down whereas Red Hat is a growth company, which means that a wise career choice for S.u.S.E. staff is defection to Red Hat

“Pinta” comes from Novell staff and software patents tax (on SLE*) comes from Microsoft in the form of vouchers

Two recent additions to Novell's staff did not stay on board; they jumped ship instead

The openSUSE project, which creates the development version of Novell's SUSE Linux, is getting a handful of full-time Novell developers.

An excellent new audiocast covers lesser known facts about Novell's deal with Microsoft