http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/novell.html The latest Novell news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/102909-novell-sco-supreme-court.html 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. John Fontana 2009-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-sco-fires-ceo.html Unix software vendor SCO, struggling through bankruptcy and a Unix copyright trial involving Novell, has fired President and CEO Darl McBride. Jon Brodkin 2009-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/101209id2.html 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 upcoming release of Active Directory as part of Windows Server 2000, but to me, the interesting thing is to look at the companies that were mentioned. Dave Kearns 2009-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101309-novell-sap.html Novell is integrating its security and identity software with governance, risk and compliance wares from SAP John Fontana 2009-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/100509id1.html 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. Dave Kearns 2009-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/093009-microsoft-saml.html Microsoft completed its first SAML interoperability test and the results are in: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 software received a passing grade. John Fontana 2009-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2009/092809id2.html 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 shoot themselves in the foot numerous times over the years -- and now they've done it again. Dave Kearns 2009-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/082509-novell-sco-unix.html 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. John Fontana 2009-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/082409-sco-unix-copyright-decision-overturned.html 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. John Fontana 2009-08-24T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081909-linux-kernel-report.html Red Hat, IBM and Novell remain the top contributors to the Linux kernel, an open source project that has grown by 2.7 million lines of code over the past 16 months, according to a report put out by the Linux Foundation.  John Fontana 2009-08-19T12:00:00-04:00