Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers.
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Novell may be passionately evangelising open source software on the desktop but more than half of its own employees can still boot Windows and Office if they wish.
A new consortium aims to make Linux more usable for consumers - and draw the spotlight away from a business rival.
An industry group formed to promote the GNU/Linux operating system for desktop computers is set to finalise its corporate structure next month, and is planning its first conference for this autumn.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
Former Ximian chief executive David Patrick, now a general manager at Novell, says the Office productivity suite is the key to breaking Microsoft's hold on the desktop.
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Sun Microsystems plans to release the second version of its Java Desktop System, the server maker's version of Linux for desktop computers.
Novell's chief executive and chairman Jack Messman says contrary to popular belief his company learnt a lot from its mid-nineties tussle with Microsoft -- and now it's got the Linux community in its corner.
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