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● 03.08.08

●● Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Novell’s NCR, SAP and Sitescape Business (with Videos)

Posted in Interview, Marketing, Microsoft, Novell, Servers, SLES/SLED, Videos at 3:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

A partner of a partner is also a partner

There are a few Novell products and announcements which are worth mentioning here. The first is the point of sales product from NCR, which uses SUSE.

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Novell and NCR are cross-promoting their products as an integrated POS solution.

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Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group. The research firm reckons Linux accounted for $475 million of the $5.56 billion market, putting it third overall with an 8.5 percent market share. More details can be found here.

The second is the SAP announcement which puts SUSE in the cockpit.

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The hardware for the prototype SAP is showing at CeBIT is provided by open-source software specialist Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise.

We wrote about this negatively earlier this week. SAP is a Microsoft partner, so it’s hardly surprising that it uses a “Microsoft-approved” (i.e. Microsoft-taxed) distribution, despite the recent Red Hat certification for SAP.

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Over at Linux Journal, Novell’s ICEcore Workshop gets highlighted.

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It turns out that Novell’s Open Source Technology Center is sponsoring a workshop on ICEcore, an open source collaboration toolkit (it’s written one way on their website and another in the email, I don’t know which one to believe.).

Speaking of ICEcore, see this new Sitescape interview.

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Novell CEO talks about this acquisition as well.

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Not much has happened in the past week, but Novell still had those announcements to make. █

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