Canonical, maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical has advanced Linux on both the desktop and server and should be a good fit for the Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Canonical supports several other open-source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart, and by joining, it should be able to support and benefit from other Linux community members in the Linux Foundation, including IBM, Novell, Oracle, Intel, Red Hat and VMware.
- Canonical, maintainer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux
Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of
Linux.
By joining, Canonical can both contribute to and benefit from the foundation
that features many of the Linux community’s leading comp…


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Microsoft and Novell expand their interoperability partnership with Microsoft buying up to $100 million in SUSE Linux certificates. The partnership helps enable SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server to work together in the datacenter. Moreover, the companies will continue to work collaboratively on virtualization, systems management, directory and identity federation, document format compatibility, accessibility technology, and the Moonlight multimedia framework.
- Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their partnership to promote interoperability between the SUSE Linux platform and Windows, with Microsoft pledging to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that customers can redeem for support.
The goal of the Microsoft/Novell …


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Microsoft and Novell this week took the wraps off a joint virtualization solution in which Novell’s SuSE Enterprise Linux runs as an optimized guest on the Hyper-V hypervisor.
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Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair’s first fully supported joint product since their interoperability partnership was forged in 2006.
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Novell is getting into network access control via an OEM agreement with StillSecure that initially provides a stand-alone product but also includes plans to ensure that software works well with Novell’s ZENworks configuration management.
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Microsoft and Novell Thursday released a virtualization bundle that represents the pair’s first fully supported joint product since their interoperability partnership was forged in 2006.
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Novell plays the network access control game with a new solution targeted at Windows.
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