● 12.15.10

●● Misc. Novell News: Proprietary Products Galore

Posted in Novell at 7:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Proprietary software is to software what junk food is to dining

Summary: A quick overview of this month’s Novell news about proprietary software

●●● Identity Manager

• Cooley Law School Secures Identities for Cloud-based Google Apps with Novell Identity Manager (also here)

↺ Cooley Law School Secures Identities for Cloud-based Google Apps with Novell Identity Manager
↺ here

• Novell announces industry’s first solution- Novell Identity Manager 4 (also here)

↺ Novell announces industry’s first solution- Novell Identity Manager 4
↺ here

●●● Bomgar

• Novell Transforms Customer Experience with Collaborative Remote Support from Bomgar

↺ Novell Transforms Customer Experience with Collaborative Remote Support from Bomgar

●●● Utah

• Utah’s Top Entrepreneurs Recognized at 2010 UVEF Awards (Novell mentioned)

↺ Utah’s Top Entrepreneurs Recognized at 2010 UVEF Awards

• Why You Should Start a Company in… Salt Lake City

↺ Why You Should Start a Company in… Salt Lake City
Salt Lake also boasts a history of tech giants in Novell and WordPerfect, and a pair of successful startups in storage device maker Fusion IO and Web analytics software firm Omniture which was sold to Adobe for $1.8 billion this year.

●●● History

• The 10 Biggest Software Stories Of 2010 (“And there was the pending sale of Novell, once a head-to-head competitor of Microsoft, now a relatively minor player,” it claims)

↺ The 10 Biggest Software Stories Of 2010

• Under scrutiny: A brief history of the relationship between the EU and technology companies

↺ Under scrutiny: A brief history of the relationship between the EU and technology companies
EU vs Microsoft: This long-running antitrust dispute saw Microsoft accused of abusing its dominant market position to push its own products in favour of those made by competitors. It started with a complaint by Novell in 1993 over Microsoft’s licensing practices, but quickly expanded to become an exhaustive investigation of many aspects of Microsoft’s business practices.

●●● GroupLink and GroupWise

• GroupLink Announces Free Service Desk Solution for Open Horizons Members (also here)

↺ GroupLink Announces Free Service Desk Solution for Open Horizons Members
↺ here
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.

• New Maintenance Release for BlackBerry Enterprise Server – Now Available

↺ New Maintenance Release for BlackBerry Enterprise Server – Now Available

• GroupLink unveils free service desk offering for Open Horizons members

↺ GroupLink unveils free service desk offering for Open Horizons members

• CompanionLink Supports Outlook Sync with Nokia Symbian Phones

↺ CompanionLink Supports Outlook Sync with Nokia Symbian Phones

●●● Sentinel

• Novell Sentinel Log Manager Tomcat Vulnerability

↺ Novell Sentinel Log Manager Tomcat Vulnerability

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