The Microsoft-Novell duo still uses "IP assurance" as a method to market the Microsoft-taxed SLE* at the expense of RHEL

We recently showed how Microsoft is ’stealing’ from Novell’s GroupWise. Is this the company that Novell is serving in so many ways? Why? Has Novell forgotten the past so quickly? Examples from the news of Novell problems and loss of business to Microsoft.

Bits from the press about Novell and virtualisation for the most part. MANY people may not remember this, but Ron Hovsepian admitted giving power to Microsoft in the datacentres. It was part of the deal that Novell should permit Windows to run as a host and SUSE usually be a guest.

"Not since SCO has there been a company so reviled by the open source community as Novell following its deal with Microsoft.

New evidence confirms that Novell is still advancing interests that are seemingly conflicting to its own

More evidence arrives showing that Novell is simply advancing Microsoft at the expense of GNU/Linux

Red Hat is an open-source company, while Novell is not, as Novell's CEO and CFO both emphasized in Novell's most recent earnings call. Sun, for its part, was desperately trying to reinvent itself as an open-source company, but struggled to do so given the weight of its declining hardware businesses.

Microsoft is sending another $100 million toward Novell as part of an ongoing Windows-SUSE Linux relationship. Here are five things Novell should do with that dough.

Microsoft's Virtualization Validation program is used to push Novell at the expense of rivals like Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu.