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.

This week's bits of analysis and news about Novell's time in court, including a win in California

Many stories about software patents make an appearance at the moment (it's clearly a hot topic) and there's little time to expand on them, so here is just a sample of news worth reading if you care about the legal fight against Free software.

More signs of weakness arrive from the news, elucidating loss of inertia for Microsoft Office and OOXML.

This is a roundup of some good news for ODF, collected over the past couple of days.

One person's opinion about Novell's position; Sirius beat Novell UK in the past and does this again

Novell beat Wall Street's estimates with a solid third quarter, but the real story is in its continued Linux growth. Net revenue rose to $245 million from $237 million in 2007, but Novell's third-quarter loss quadrupled to $15.1 million from $3.7 million in 2007.

More bad news for Novell's OpenSUSE, in the words of others

Lots of Novell news ranging from SCO and Netware to hardware and people. WHAT a week of pranks it must have been for Novell. Between rumours of an IBM takeover to similar ones involving Microsoft, Novell sure needed a sense of humour. Here is another joke about Novell bidding for Linus Torvalds.