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Novell slapped with suit for new mini-OS
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| Astrum Inc., a software security company in Carrollton, Texas, has filed suit
| against Novell Inc. Astrum claims that Novell violated its contract regarding
| development of the mini-operating system appliance that Novell launched last
| month. Novell’s JeOS or Just enough Operating System, is a miniature version
| of the SUSE Linux Enterprise OS, which was created to help independent
| software vendors develop or deploy new SUSE-based applications easier and
| faster.
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| Filed in U.S. District Court in Texas’ Eastern Division, the lawsuit contends
| that the two companies entered into a mutual nondisclosure agreement on Oct.
| 25, 2006, to develop the software appliance but Novell violated the agreement
| by revealing confidential information to partners and customers. Then, after
| the prototype was successfully tested in November 2007, Novell engaged rPath
| of Raleigh, N.C., the following April to create the appliances based on SUSE
| Linux Enterprise.
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| The suit alleged breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, common
| law misappropriation, misappropriation of ideas and promissory “estoppel,” or
| broken promises.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/19/novell-slapped-with-suit-for-new-mini-os/
Recent:
Red Hat's (and Sun's) missed SUSE opportunity
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| Chew on that last one for a bit. Way back in 2002/2003, Sun might have been
| in the Linux business, while Novell might have kept fiddling with NetWare
| (but more likely would have gone actively into the open-source applications
| realm, following on its acquisition of Ximian). We would have been living in
| a very different open-source industry if things had gone Sun's way back then.
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| Better? Worse? I don't know. But different.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9929911-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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