FBI supports data-breach bill; Novell plans Supreme Court SCO ruling appeal
Oct. 29, 2009
FBI supports data-breach bill; Novell plans Supreme Court SCO ruling appeal
Novell plans to petition Supreme Court in SCO case
Oct. 29, 2009
Novell wants to takes it case against SCO to the Supreme Court and is asking a federal appeals court hearing the case to give Novell a 90-day stay.
SCO fires CEO McBride as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy
Oct. 19, 2009
Unix software vendor SCO, struggling through bankruptcy and a Unix copyright trial involving Novell, has fired President and CEO Darl McBride.
Novell, SAP bring together security, compliance wares
Oct. 13, 2009
Novell is integrating its security and identity software with governance, risk and compliance wares from SAP
Active Directory in spotlight 10 years ago
Oct. 13, 2009
In this issue I'd like to take a look back 10 years -- to the October 1999 issues of this newsletter's predecessor, Network World Fusion Focus on Directory Services. The majority of those issues were concerned with the ...
Novell details modular infrastructure plan
Mar. 17, 2008
Novell Monday laid out a technical strategy that would let users mix and match physical and virtual machines along with management tools, identity services, collaboration software, and open source operating systems.
Novell does the right thing
Oct. 02, 2009
When a company makes a big mistake I'll call them out on it. And when a company recognizes a mistake and corrects it, I'll give them a big pat on the back. Novell gets a pat on the back today.
Microsoft passes its first SAML 2.0 interoperability test
Sep. 30, 2009
Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade.
Novell does it again
Sep. 29, 2009
There was a time, perhaps a dozen years ago, when Novell owned the identity management market. Of course, it's always been said of Novell that they have great technology, and abysmal marketing. They have managed to ...
iPhone gets .Net app development
Sep. 14, 2009
Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld
New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center
Jun. 11, 2009
Novell next week plans to release yet another tool that is the product of its three-year-old integration agreement with Microsoft, this time a plug-in for Microsoft's management tools that lets users manage Novell's ...
Novell's Storage Manager
Apr. 30, 2009
Novell introduced Novell Storage Manager some years back. Formerly called File System Factory, the software allows IT managers to monitor and manage the unstructured data - Word, Excel, PDFs - residing on the file ...
Novell includes Windows CardSpace in Novell Access Manager
Jan. 19, 2009
I haven't chatted with the folks from Novell in a while, so I was glad of the opportunity to talk with Lee Howarth, product manager for Novell's Access Manager last week about the new release - Version 3.1 - of the ...
Novell, SCO ready for another day in court over Unix fight
Aug. 25, 2009
Both SCO and Novell are anticipating their next day in court to settle who owns Unix copyrights after a judge Monday overturned a 2007 decision that favored Novell.
Judge overturns 2007 Unix copyright decision
Aug. 24, 2009
A federal appeals court Monday overturned a 2007 decision that Novell owns the Unix code and sent the case back to trial, clearing the way for SCO to pursue a $1 billion copyright infringement case against IBM.
Linux driver chief went looking for Microsoft
Jul. 20, 2009
Microsoft is known for its bull-in-a-china shop tactics, but the vendor was actually pushed by the Linux driver project team to make Monday's historic code submission to the Linux kernel.
IBM Power servers most reliable in new survey
Jul. 14, 2009
IBM's Power servers topped a list of most reliable x86 and Unix machines in a new survey, clocking in at only 15 minutes of unplanned downtime per year.
Novell SLED 11 feels a lot like Window 7, MacOS
Apr. 27, 2009
Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) at the same time it rolled out SLES 11.
Novell's SLES 11 is packed to the gills and keeps moving at a decent clip
Apr. 27, 2009
In our Clear Choice test of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11, we found it to be packed with useful management tools, to have virtualization threaded though many of its processes, and to perform at rates ...
Xen-based hypervisors push performance limits
Jan. 12, 2009
When we declared VMware's ESX virtual machine platform to be the performance winner against Micosoft's Hyper-V.
Novell SLES 10.2 Xen offers great promise
Jan. 12, 2009
Novell's SLES 10.2 with Xen 3.2 is part of its Linux product line and typically is managed by the company's ZenWorks products and services.
Citrix XenServer is tops among Xen-based hypervisors
Jan. 12, 2009
XenServer's hardware support was second only to that in Novell's Xen implementation, which has a slight advantage because it runs on any hardware supported by the Novell SLES 10 Linux distribution.
Review: LANDesk's automation shines in client management review
Feb. 04, 2008
In this Network World Clear Choice Test of client management product we review products for a myriad of traditional desktop management capabilities such as asset inventory, client configuration and software distribution ...
SLES 10 server provides virtualization, availability
Jul. 31, 2006
With SLES 10 Novell offers virtualization, armor and availability.
Novell polishes SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
Jul. 31, 2006
With the introduction of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Version 10, Novell is getting closer to shipping a viable competitor to Microsoft's Windows/Office combination.
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Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 61
2004 NW200 rank: 59
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) | 1198 | |
| '04-'05 revenue change | 3% | |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue | 4% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) | 377 | |
| Change from '04 | 559 | |
| As percentage of revenue 31 | 31 | |
| CAGR, '01-'05 | - |
Employees
| Number of employees | 5066 | |
| '04 - '05 change | -18 | |
| Revenue per employee | 236419 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) | 2960 | |
| Cash/investments ($M) | ||
| Year inc. | 1983 | |
| Fiscal year ends | Oct |
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