Jeff Gould
October 3, 2008

Standards, open standards and double standards

In my last post I took Big Blue to task for its announcement that it intends to wage war against Microsoft in the world’s standards bodies. The motivation for this bellicose declaration was IBM’s stinging defeat last Spring in its battle to prevent the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from ratifying Microsoft’s de facto office document standard (OOXML).

IBM charges that Microsoft won at the ISO only because it packed the national standards organizations that make up the ISO membership with its pals.

But the thing that galls me about IBM’s position – and the reason I wrote my post – is not its goody-two-shoes stance about lobbying. No, it’s the flagrant hypocrisy behind this whole open standards campaign. In a nutshell, Big Blue conspicuously fails to practice what it preaches.

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Tuesday
07Oct

Mono 2.0 is out!

By Miguel de Icaza (Web log)
Today we released Mono 2.0 to the world. This of course would not be possible without the open source contributors that worked tirelessly on Mono sending patches, fixing bugs, helping the community, answering questions, creating test cases and supporting us all these years.
Mono 2.0 is both a runtime for application and a kit for developers for writing applications with C# and other ECMA CLI languages for a wide spectrum of uses.

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Thursday
18Sep

Interop: It's all about collaboration

By Sean Michael Kerner (Internetnews.com)
Those networks you manage aren't just about moving simple data around any more. That's the message that leading executives from IBM, Cisco and Novell delivered at the Interop trade show today during the morning keynote sessions.
Keywords in their talking points: social networking tools, virtualization, cloud computing and the need to manage it all in a seamless and heterogeneous manner. This is how you need to think about data these days.

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Wednesday
17Sep

Red Hat stonewalls on Microsoft interoperability plans

By Pam Derringer (IT Knowledge Exchange)
Novell Inc.’s recent coup of achieving bidirectional virtualization with Microsoft’s Hyper-V — SUSE Linux Enterprise can run as a guest on Hyper-V and Hyper-V on SUSE — is a huge step forward for interoperability.

Novell’s accomplishment begs for a response from Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc., the largest open source vendor, which, publicly at least, has remained totally aloof from Microsoft, which, like it or not, has an overwhelming share of the server market.

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Monday
01Sep

Novell: Quietly developing some momentum

By Larry Dignan (ZDNet Blogs)
Novell’s fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell’s most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations.
That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought.

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Friday
29Aug

CIOs: Finally falling for Novell again?

By The VAR Guy (Blog)
Lots of open source fans booed when Novell jumped into bed with Microsoft. But perhaps sleeping with Microsoft really is good for Novell’s health. Anecdotal evidence is starting to suggest that CIOs (chief information officers) actually like seeing Novell and Microsoft arm in arm.

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Wednesday
27Aug

SUSE-Linux-on-IBM-loaned mainframe becomes teaching ground

By Pam Derringer (SearchEnterpriseLinux.com)
While most computer science students learn skills on x86 servers, their counterparts at the University of Arkansas will now get hands-on experience on a new IBM system z900 running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise.

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Thursday
21Aug

Novell-Microsoft interop pact may look sweeter to IT shops these days

By Paula Rooney (ZDNet Blogs)
Novell took a lot of heat from open source backers for executing an interoperability pact with Microsoft in late 2006 but the partnership — strengthened with a new $100 million investment from Microsoft today — is probably looking sweeter to mixed IT shops these days.
Why? Because of recent events in the virtualization and document format compatibility fronts, notably Microsoft’s recent release of its Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor and the ISO’s recent approval of Microsoft’s OOXML as a standard document format.

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Wednesday
20Aug

Microsoft, Novell bolster Linux partnership

By Larry Dignan (ZDNet Blogs)
Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday that the software giant will invest more into the companies’ SUSE Linux partnership. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will buy up to an additional $100 million in SUSE Linux support certificates.

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Monday
18Aug

Open source: An open question for Red Hat and others

By Aaron Ricadela (BusinessWeek)
It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots.

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Wednesday
06Aug

IBM, Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat to deliver Microsoft-free desktops worldwide

(Market Watch)
For the first time, IBM and leading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009.

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