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GroupLink Announces FREE Service Desk Solution for OH Members |
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V  IENNA, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- GroupLink Corporation, makers of the first ZENworks 10 integrated service desk, the "everything HelpDesk" (eHD), announced the upcoming release of its free service desk solution at the 2010 Open Horizons EMEA Summit. This free solution, slated to release by 31 January 2011, is an exclusive offer for all Open Horizons Members. This announcement comes as GroupLink shows its commitment to the EMEA market and the members of Open Horizons, the largest Novell user community in the world.
!!! FREE Service Desk Solution for Open Horizons Members !!!
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GWAVACon: Last chance to get your early bird! |
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 Time is short! The early bird ticket for Open Horizons members is valid
until September 15, 2010. To this day all Open Horizons members can get
a GWAVACon ticket for EUR 250. After this deadline the regular ticket
price will be EUR 420 for Open Horizons members. Finally there are a
lot of new details regarding training, workshops and speakers available
online. So Dave Wilkes, Engineering Vice President Novell, will be
on-site at GWAVACon EMEA for the first time to talk about products,
visions and future plans in his keynote and guide you through his
workshops. Download the event flyer here. More information and the registration at www.GWAVACon.com |
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GWAVACon: Special price for OH-Members worldwide |
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 Open
Horizons members are going to get a special discount for GWAVACon EMEA
2010. This huge event around the Novell product line is going to happen
again in Berlin from the 23rd to the 25th of October. Members will get
15 % discount both on the early bird price (295 Euro until End of
August) as well as on the normal price (495 Euro from 1st of september).
Open Horizons is going to be a sponsor at this event, we would be happy
to meet you there. GWAVACon information and registration here..... |
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GWAVA: Free Movie for BrainShare Attendees |
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 Looking for something to do on Sunday evening before BrainShare begins?
Come join GWAVA and our partners for a free movie at the downtown
MegaPlex at the Gateway Mall, a walkable distance from the Salt Palace
Convention Center. GWAVA is offering free tickets to any BrainShare
attendees who wish to join us to watch the “Bounty Hunter,” starring
Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. Seating is limited, so make sure
you register to reserve your spot as soon as possible. |
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Join the Vibe - Welcome to Our Vibe Tour - Soon in Your Area! |
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Novell Vibe is the next-generation social collaboration platform for the enterprise that's available both in the cloud and on-premise. Vibe
brings together the team collaboration and social business products formerly known as Novell Teaming and Pulse to make it easier for people to work together and drive better & faster business results. It offers next-generation capabilities such as real-time social messaging and online document co-editing along with file management, groups, profiles, workflow, and security and management controls.
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Free 60 day Trial of Novell File Management Suite |
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 Novell
is pleased to announce the availability of Novell File Management Suite
Assessment to all customers worldwide. Now customers can get the
benefits of a 60-day, full-functionality trial of all products in the
Novell File Management Suite. This offering replaces Novell File
Reporter Assessment, which allowed customers to deploy only one product
for 60 days. Novell is giving greater value to partners and customers
with this enhanced offering. |
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BrainShare 2011 Announcement - Delayed planning |
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 A lot of people are wondering what will happen to BrainShare USA with the pending Attachmate acquisition, here is some news from the official BrainShare website: "Many of you have asked what the November 22, 2010 acquisition announcement means for BrainShare in 2011. Based on recent events and customer feedback, we have decided to delay planning for BrainShare 2011. We will announce plans for BrainShare at a later date. Check back here for future BrainShare communications."
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Attachmate: Open Letter to Novell Customers |
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 Re: Attachmate commitment to Novell and SUSE products
Since the announcement of our intent to acquire Novell, we have received a number of questions regarding our plans for supporting Novell products. I know that during this period between the announcement and closing, there are more questions than answers, and I am sensitive to the challenges that this uncertainty may create for Novell customers and partners. I want to take this opportunity to be clear about the commitments we make to all of our customers. |
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Novell Vibe OnPrem 3 Now Available |
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 Novell Vibe, the next-generation social collaboration platform that's available on-premise and in the cloud, was announced at Enterprise 2.0 last month - creating a lot of press coverage, customer interest and beneficial buzz. Novell Vibe brings together the products formerly known as Novell Teaming (now Novell Vibe OnPrem) and Novell Pulse (now Novell Vibe Cloud) to help organizations drive better and faster business results. |
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Novell Agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate Corporation |
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Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate Corporation is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. Novell also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft Corporation, for $450 million in cash, which cash payment is reflected in the merger consideration to be paid by Attachmate Corporation. |
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The news is out - Novell to be acquired by Attachmate |
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Monday
November 22 - the news is out - Novell will be taken over by Attachmate
for USD 2.2 billion - meanwhile part of the deal was a sale of
intellectual property rights for USD 450 million to CPTN Holding, a
consortium of technologies companies lead by Microsoft Corporation.
Will this be good or bad news for Novell customers and partners? This
remains to be seen - Novell might be in a safe-heaven now or being
eaten by vultures - it will at least mean that there will be a lot of
news around Novell in the next few weeks. |
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Google is ending development on Wave. So what about Pulse? |
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A logical question Novell has already been asked is “does Novell
plan to continue development of its real-time, enterprise communication
and collaboration solution, Novell Pulse?”
The answer is an emphatic Yes. At Novell, they hear from enterprise
users that they need the combination of social connections, rich
profiles, real-time co-authoring and their ever-present files in order
to make it easier to work together and actually produce better results.
Novell Pulse delivers this combination that business consumers want,
plus the security controls enterprises demand. Novell is highly
committed to the future of enterprise collaboration, and Novell Pulse is
on track. Further, they remain committed to pursuing the benefits of
real-time collaboration to enable new applications, users and
organizations to work together. |
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Want to synchronize GroupWise with SharePoint? |
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Today, Novell announced that its Data Synchronizer product is now
shipping with a GroupWise connector. Specifically this means that Novell
GroupWise now syncs to Microsoft SharePoint and other third-party
applications including Salesforce.com and SugarCRM. |
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SUSE Studio from Novell Wins 2010 American Business Award |
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Novell
announced SUSE Studio has been granted the 2010 American Business Award
for Best New Product or Service * Computer Hardware or Services. SUSE
Studio is a free, Web‑based solution that allows users to quickly build
complete software appliances in just minutes. SUSE Studio allows for
mass customization and provides a bridge to the cloud, enabling software
vendors and end users to build unique yet fully supported
configurations of the operating system that run in physical, virtual and
cloud environments. |
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GroupWise: Mobility Schedule Update |
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Dean
Lythgoe, Director Engineering GroupWise at Novell, posted some
information about the availability of the new Datasynchronizer within
his Novell blog..... |
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BES 5.0.1 Public Beta - Announced by Alex Evans (Novell) |
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 Great news to share this week. I (Alex Evans, Novell) got a call from my counterpart at RIM
and they are releasing a public beta of their BES 5.0.1 for GroupWise.
We have been running 5.0.1 in house for a number of months as part of
the early adopter program, so we have been validating it against the
latest GroupWise agents. |
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Novell Conferencing Now Available! |
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 Novell Conferencing—a cost-effective, easy-to-use web conferencing solution—is now available.
Novell Conferencing helps organizations reduce travel costs by
instantly sharing documents, web pages, whiteboards, audio and
video—even recording meetings—without any participant software to
install. Novell Conferencing is also the only solution that integrates
with Novell GroupWise. While users are in their GroupWise mailbox, they
can simply click on a Novell Messenger (formerly GroupWise Messenger)
icon to schedule or instantly launch a web conference. |
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Update on Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack |
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The open  technology preview Novell announced
at BrainShare U.S. has been extremely successful. As of April 19, Novell
had 1,522
downloads and very productive discussion taking place in the Novell
forums. As a
reminder, the technology preview--as well as available supporting
resources--can
be found at http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview. |
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Properly register & update OES2 Server via Novell Customer Care Center |
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 Do
you
have machines in your Novell Customer Care Center that come up as
unknown or
just do not look right? Have a look at this tip from Norm O'Neal, as he
describes a quick way to fix this situation. By the way, Norm is the
president of Open Horizons - US Midwest, a NUI chapter which recently
decided to "convert" to Open Horizons - congratulations to Norm and his
crew - keep up the good work! |
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BrainShare is back in Europe - Join us in Amsterdam & Receive a Bonus Gift |
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 Novell BrainShare is back and not just once, but twice. Novell surprised
many of us when announcing that in 2010 their great BrainShare event
will not only run in Salt Lake City (US) in March, but also in Europe.
And more precisely, in wonderful Amsterdam (NL), a city full of surprising views,
museums, music and much more. Of course the Open Horizons community
will be very involved with this event and together with Novell we are
planning quite a few surprising activities before and during this event.
Register via Open Horizons for BrainShare at this page - Receive a cool Bonus Gift Package! |
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Get Open Horizons Books for FREE @ BrainShare Amsterdam |
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Yes, that is right! Novell has bought a large number of Open
Horizons books and these will be offered as FREE
gift to participants at BrainShare - for as long as stock will least. Early Bird Discount of 200 Euro is available until April 16, so hurry and register NOW for BrainShare Amsterdam to
receive one of these cool books for FREE! |
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Introducing the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack Technology Preview |
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 Be among the first to get your hands on this highly anticipated
product! Novell is pleased to announce an open technology preview of
the Novell Data Synchronizer Mobility Pack, scheduled for availability
mid-year. This product will synchronize GroupWise e-mail, calendar data
and contacts with all ActiveSync-enabled devices—including the Apple
iPhone. It will also serve as a replacement for GroupWise Mobile
Server. To download the technology preview today, visit http://www.novell.com/mobilitypreview. |
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Spring Clean on Novell File Management Suite |
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Clean up your file storage and reduce costs.
Reduce complexity and costs. With Novell File Management Suite you can
turn your file storage chaos into organized efficiency. Order by 30
April next and receive a 15% discount.
Documents, presentations and spreadsheets, represent an organization’s
precious intellectual capital, but they are also the fastest-growing data type
within organizations, consuming storage space at faster rates for longer periods
of time. The proliferation of this data creates storage management challenges
that increase your administrative and infrastructure costs. |
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Ron Hovsepian: Novell News Update |
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 Dear Customer:
I want to share with you an important announcement that Novell made today.
As you may know, on March 2nd, Elliott Associates, L.P. announced
an unsolicited, conditional proposal to acquire Novell. Today we issued
a press release announcing that our Board of Directors has concluded,
after careful consideration, including a review of the proposal with
its independent financial and legal advisors, that Elliott's proposal
is inadequate and that it undervalues the Company's franchise and
growth prospects.
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 Novell released the latest and final support pack today for Novell
GroupWise 7. It is Novell GroupWise 7.0.4 and it is available for
immediate download.
GroupWise 7.0.4 is a compilation of all Hot Patches and Field Test
Files since Novell released GroupWise 7.0.3. GroupWise 7.0.3 was
released in early 2008 and since then customers have been able to
download Hot Patches, updates and changes through regular support
channels and their Novell Technical Services representative. |
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Novell Releases Hosted Conferencing to Complete Collaboration Portfolio |
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Novell today announced the availability of a hosted version of Novell
Conferencing. This new conferencing solution enables users to conduct
virtual meetings, demos and Webinars using a Web browser. With this Web
conferencing technology, organizations can significantly reduce the
cost and time required for face-to-face travel by instantly sharing
documents, desktops, applications, Web pages, whiteboards, audio, video
- even record meeting - without installing any software. |
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Bill Pray on Elliott-Novell - What Might Happen to GroupWise |
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 Check out this blog by Bill Pray, previous GroupWise Product Manager, on the future of GroupWise. What-if...
The bid by Elliott for Novell has lead to speculation on what may
happen should the buyout be successful. Blogs from Drue Reeves ( Novell Going Private?) and Richard Jones ( Elliott/Novell: Implications on SUSE)
have highlighted their observations. Having been a former Novell
employee and product manager for GroupWise, I want to take the
opportunity to add my observations on what might happen to Novell’s
communications and collaboration technologies should the buyout occur.
GroupWise has been a solid, mature, feature rich, enterprise solution for many years. |
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Ron Hovsepian: Invitation for Brainshare EMEA |
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Today Novell´s CEO Ron Hovsepian did send an email-invitation to all Novell customers for BrainShare EMEA 2010 in Amsterdam:
To Our Customers,
We heard you loud and clear at the Customer Advisory Board last
year that BrainShare is a critical component of your overall education
and training on all things Novell. Based on your feedback, we've
streamlined BrainShare this year to make it a leaner, more focused, and
more relevant technical conference. |
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Novell update: Letter from Ron Hovsepian |
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Dear Customer:
I wanted to contact you personally to address recent news about Novell.
Late Tuesday, March 2, Novell received an unsolicited, conditional
proposal from Elliott Associates, L.P. to acquire Novell for $5.75 per
share in cash. Elliott is an investment firm that holds shares of
Novell stock. As you will see in our news release,
we anticipate Novell's Board of Directors will review Elliott's
proposal in consultation with Novell's financial and legal advisors.
Beyond that, it is business as usual for us at Novell. |
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Novell Teaming 2.1 is now Available! |
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 Announcing general availability of Novell Teaming 2.1. You can now
download, upgrade and roll out the very latest version of Novell
Teaming. Since Teaming 2.0 released last July, the engineering team has
put together an exciting update to this piece of our collaboration
portfolio. |
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Open Horizons BeNeLux 2.0
29/02/12
meer nieuws later deze week ! |
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Win a Exclusive Weekend for Two @ Pincoffs Suite Hotel |
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 The Pincoffs Suite Hotel is a small luxury hotel. It resides in a national monument built in 1879 in the area currently called Kop van Zuid, the trendy Rotterdam
left bank. The former customs office is full of atmosphere and
authentic details. The hotel offers you charm, space and comfort in our
suites, luxury rooms, hotel bar and period rooms for meetings. The view
of the river, the bridges and the skyline is breathtaking. |
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Open Horizons Visit to RIM HQ – BES 5.0.1 for GW available in October?! |
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When
Erno looks at his large collection of PDA's and phones, he always
remembers his first experience with a BlackBerry. In those days it was
really for the “happy few” and being able to even touch and use such a
exquisite device with the full QWERTY keyboard made you forget all the
clumsiness of some other devices. When Volkmar is looking at the latest
BES 5.0.1 for GroupWise server, which is still in beta of course, he can
not wait to see the response from his customers when he deploys it for
them. |
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Registration for EMEA Summit is now OPEN! |
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 Today, on April 30, on request of
may people within the communit (" You are late this year?!")
we have opened the registration for the EMEA Summit 2010,
which will run in Vienna (AT) from Sunday November 28
until Wednesday December 1. And within a few minutes the first
registration was already made by Peter Wachs (DE) -
finally after 5 years he has beaten Hans Prim (SE) in being " Number
One"!
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The GroupWise Powerguide - Second Edition - Now Available @ Amazon |
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The English version of The Groupwise Powerguide- Second Edition became
available early May 2009. This completely new version contains a lot of
tips and tricks about GroupWise covering versions 8.0 as well as 7.0.
This book will take everyone who is already working with GroupWise to
the next level. Now includes Business Scenarios and valuable content in 216 topics, all in more than 300 pages. Great value for money - guaranteed to optimize your investment in GroupWise - this book will make you and your organization more effective and efficient.
Buy this book to Support the Community - Profits will further strengthen Open Horizons.
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Webconferencing: Survey by Novell and Open Horizons |
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 Novell
in cooperation with Open Horizons has created a survey regarding web
conferencing. Because of the current economical climate web based
conferencing solutions are getting on the radar of more and more
customers. Reducing travel costs, saving time, and increasing
productivity are the three common denominators. We would like to ask
you to take a few minutes and join the survey. Out of all attendees one
lucky person is going to win a brandnew Sony eBook reader. Join the web conferencing survey now.... |
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PlateSpin Forge’s ahead in disaster recovery |
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 PlateSpin
has announced the release of a disaster recovery hardware appliance,
PlateSpin Forge, to protect physical and virtual server workloads. John
Ko, product marketing manager for PlateSpin told CRN that PlateSpin
Forge is the company’s first offering specifically targeting the
disaster recovery market. He added that the purpose-built recovery
solution includes prepackaged and preconfigured hardware, software and
virtual infrastructure, addressing issues faced by both SMBs and
enterprise. |
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US Supreme Court Won't Hear Microsoft's Novell Appeal |
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Novell - strong results as the company finally sees its efforts rewarded |
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Last
week Novell unveiled its result for the first quarter of fiscal 2008.
Net revenue was $231m (including $7m positive impact from currency
exchange rates). Income from operations was $8m ($24m non-GAAP or 10%
of revenue, up from a negative 1% a year ago). Non-GAAP net income was
$29m. Comment: Novell has spent the last few years pulling itself up
and improving execution but had, until recently, very little to show
for it. This is no longer the case. The last few quarters have been
increasingly impressive with Novell starting to exceed consensus
estimates, leading to a strong first quarter of fiscal 2008, with total
revenue up 6% and product revenue up 9%. |
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Novell Acquires PlateSpin for $205M |
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 Novell
announced Feb. 25 that it will acquire Toronto-based virtualization
management software and services provider PlateSpin Ltd. for $205
million in cash. It was the second acquisition Novell has revealed in
12 days. The Waltham, Mass.-based enterprise software maker bought
open-source team collaboration software provider SiteScape -- founder
of the ICEcore open-source collaboration project -- on Feb. 13.
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Novell acquires SiteScape |
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Novell has acquired SiteScape, a provider of collaboration
solutions and the founder of the ICEcore open source collaboration
project. The merger between the two companies will create
interoperable, open source and open standards-based workspaces to help
with team productivity. Financial terms of the deal were not released
but SiteScape would become a fully owned subsidiary of Novell and all
the employees will fold into Novell's ranks. Also, the SiteScape brand
will no longer exist as part of the acquisition.
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vCard - an important addressbook standard |
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vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card. vCard is used in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centers, video conferencing, PIMs (Personal Information Managers), PDAs (Personal Data Assistants), pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard information goes way beyond simple text, and includes elements like pictures, company logos, live Web addresses, and so on. |
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vCalendar - the way to exchange calendar data |
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vCalendar defines a transport and platform-independent format for exchanging calendaring and scheduling information in an easy, automated, and consistent manner. It captures information about event and "to-do" items that are normally used by applications such as a personal information managers (PIMs) and group schedulers. Programs that use vCalendar can exchange important data about events so that you can schedule meetings with anyone who has a vCalendar-aware program. |
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The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of Novell's multibillion-dollar antitrust suit against it. The news hit just as Novell's annual BrainShare user conference was
getting starting. Basically a private replay of the Justice
Department's suit against Microsoft, the case involves Novell's claims
that Microsoft targeted WordPerfect and QuattroPro to protect its
operating system monopoly. 
