It’s unlikely that anybody in the industry needs three anonymous Reuters
sources to tell them that NetWare has been the donkey on the bridge holding
up the sale of Novell for lo the six months the company’s been in play.
Everybody has known for years and years that that thing has been an albatross
around Novell’s neck. Heck, if Novell had been able to solve its NetWare
problem it wouldn’t have bought SUSE Linux.
Anyway, Reuters says that Novell can’t get whatever ridiculous price it’s
demanding for the little bloodsucker and that if it can’t unload the thing
at its valuation it may abort the sale of SUSE and stay independent, or IPO a
division, or something. It doesn’t want to sell off SUSE to VMware or CA or
whoever else has come a calling and be left there with NetWare in its hand.
Reuters identified Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity as having tired of the
“onerous... (more)
In the past six months alone there have been multiple new zero-day
vulnerabilities reported in Microsoft Windows and widely covered uneasiness
about the security of mobile apps, cloud service providers and SCADA systems
that reinforce concerns about unknown weaknesses lurking in everyday
software. To address those concerns, Veracode, Inc. analyzed more than 2,900
applications to publish the "State of Software Security Report: Volume 2."
Similar to the first report, findings show that overall quality of
applications remains poor, with 57 percent failing to meet acceptable levels ... (more)
Adobe said Wednesday that's it's not going to put any more money into
developing the Linux version of Flash Builder, once called Flex Builder,
because there's no money in it.
The move could be a harbinger of other companies re-evaluating their Linux
investments given the still nasty economic environment and the Linux
community's notorious proclivity for not being a revenue generator. Oracle,
for one, which sees software as a business it controls, recently pulled the
plug on OpenSolaris.
Anyway Adobe turned in a handsome quarter Tuesday but got slammed real bad
when it forecast ... (more)
The OpenSolaris governing board fell on its collective sword Monday and
resigned en masse after Oracle continued to ignore its ultimatum to appoint a
liaison guy to work with it on the future of the open source project.
The move was anticlimactic to say the least. Oracle last week leaked an
internal e-mail into the wild effectively saying OpenSolaris is dead.
The news of the mass resignation, coupled with Oracle suing Google claiming
Android infringes on its Java patents, had Adobe's director of open source
and standards David McAllister casting Oracle as the New Microsoft and sayi... (more)
Who is buying Novell? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that VMware is in
talks to acquire Novell's Linux software unit. Novell, adds the Journal, is
in "advanced talks with at least two buyers." VMware's primary interest would
be in purchasing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business, experts
agree.
What experts don't agree on is whether or not SUSE Linux would be in the best
hands, were VMware to be its new custodian. Self-declared "Cyber Cynic" Steve
Vaughan-Nichols, for example, notes the irony that the CEO of VMware is none
other than an ex-Microsoftie, Paul Maritz (... (more)
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