Archive for the ‘Novell’ Category
Novell Wipes the Floor with SCO
It’s an utter rout. Linux is apparently saved whether it deserves to be or not. SCO Thursday lost its bid to get the jury verdict awarding Novell the Unix copyrights overturned along with its bid to get the copyrights despite the jury decision. It also lost its right to sue IBM for copying Unix code [...]
SCO Still Manages To Bite Novell in the Ass
Ah, sweet irony. On the day that Novell won against SCO on the basis of an agreement that most people (the die-hard Linux contingent excepted) think transferred IP, it lost to Microsoft on the basis of an agreement that most people (except the judge) think didn’t transfer IP, and as a topper SCO is involved [...]
SCO, the Fat Lady & Novell’s Slippery Grasp on the Unix Copyrights
SCO has one foot in the grave, but the sod hasn’t been thrown over it yet. With its copyright and slander-of-title case lost to Novell, it says it still means to bring its suspended contract and unfair competition case against IBM if the judge who presided over the Novell case – and who may have [...]
Whither Novell?
Novell’s gone awfully quiet since last week when Elliott Associates, a New York hedge fund better known for trafficking in Peruvian debt, offered $5.75 a share to take in private. In fact, the only peep out of it has been the constant rustle of its stock trading hands apparently in anticipation of either a sweetened [...]
Jury To Decide in March Who Owns Unix
SCO’s case against Novell for slander of title is going to trial on March 8. That means a Utah jury will decide who the heck owns Unix. Novell tried like the dickens but failed to get the date pushed back to next summer during a scheduling hearing Tuesday with Judge Ted Stewart, who’ll be presiding. [...]
MySQL + Novell??
MySQL co-developer Monty Widenius, said to have the business sense of a child by MySQL’s old management, and his hired help Florian Mueller, who made a killing on his MySQL stock when Sun lost its mind and bid a billion dollars for the Scandinavian company, paying 20 times revenues, are now insisting that Oracle should [...]
Novell Denies It’s For Sale
Novell Friday told the SEC it wasn’t thinking of shopping itself after JP Morgan analyst John DiFucci said that Novell’s CFO Dana Russell “entertained the possibility of breaking out some parts or of selling the entire company to maximize shareholder value given the current depressed valuation levels.” DiFucci and Russell had met Thursday and DiFucci [...]