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● 08.13.10

●● Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle; Taleo Puts Sun’s Former CEO and Former Novell Employee in the Board

Posted in Mono, Novell, Oracle, SUN at 6:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Next target for Oracle could be Novell; Sun’s outgoing CEO gets a part-time job alongside a former Noveller

MAKER of Mono Novell Inc. is now at risk of lawsuits from Oracle, not just Microsoft (which was also sued by Salesforce for patent violations in .NET). Bruce Byfield mentions Novell’s Go-OO in his latest article, which is about OpenOffice.org 3.3. Novell has been trying to fork OpenOffice.org, which upset some people at Sun. Now that Oracle owns Sun and is also getting litigious against similar works, what is the probability of Novell being sued by Oracle (which uses RHEL and Solaris, not SLES)? Novell has been poaching Solaris customers recently, which would anger Oracle.

=> ↺ Mono | at risk of lawsuits from Oracle | sued by Salesforce for patent violations in .NET | ↺ his latest article

According to this, Jonathan Schwartz (who very much dislikes extortion with software patents) enters the board of Taleo along with Jim Tolonen, who used to work for Novell:

=> ↺ this | very much dislikes extortion with software patents | ↺ enters the board of Taleo | ↺ used to work for Novell

Tolonen was CFO for Business Objects, a software maker, until it was acquired by SAP AG in January 2008. Taleo said he has also worked at Novell Inc., IGN Entertainment Inc., and CyberMedia.

The new Sales VP of InsideSales.com turns out to have some Novell history as well. █

=> ↺ turns out to have some Novell history

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