Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Novell hopping with news, but it?s not all good
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> | But the news wasn?t all good for Novell: Astrum Inc., a Texas startup
> | now headed by two former Novell employees, for example, filed a suit
> | against Novell for breach of contract in connection with the development
> | of a mini-operating system appliance. The scuttlebutt is that Novell has
> | dumped the partners in favor of a more established company.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/27/linux-hopping-with-product-news-a-lawsuit-and-positioning-maneuvers/
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> Recent:
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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.
> |
> | 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.
> |
> | 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/
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Wow. They learn fast. That's a page out of the manual for MicroSoft.
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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