Novell news for May 2nd, 2012

* GWAVA 6 - Now Shipping!
* SHI International Selects SUSE Linux Enterprise as its Linux-based option on ...
* eCube Systems Achieves Silver Status from Novell PartnerNet with a Special ...
* OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Announces Changes in Distribution of its RDMA ...
* Linux scores on the server
* Mono team ports Android to C#
* Quest Software Boasts Robust Migration Services
* Libre Office is taking off 'like a rocket'
* LibreOffice fires shots across OpenOffice bow
* For Google Chairman Schmidt, Maybe Monopoly Was The Goal
* IBM plays nice with Red Hat and SUSE on Linux, Canonical not in the gang
* IBM Linux Support Gets an Upgrade
* NewWave Software Licensing Announces Low Prices on Symantec, Cisco, Microsoft ...
* How to Sync the NOOK with Novell GroupWise
* GWAVA Augments Messaging Security with Image Detection from Image ...
* Amtel Names Tech Veteran Richard Bliss as New Chief Marketing Officer
* Suse sings of Raspberry Pi
* How to Choose an Enterprise Linux Distro
* Report reveals who's writing Linux

GWAVA 6 - Now Shipping!
The long anticipated GWAVA 6 is now available. With its great new features, you'll want to upgrade right away. GWAVA 6 includes multi-tenancy and improved policy management, integration with Image Analyzer for protection against illicit images, and 64-bit Windows compatibility.
http://www.gwava.com/products/gwava.html

SHI International Selects SUSE Linux Enterprise as its Linux-based option on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NUREMBERG, Germany, and SOMERSET, NJ, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/
-- SUSE and SHI International Corp. today announced SHI Cloud, a
next-generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering designed for IT
organizations, will offer SUSE® Linux ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/shi-international-selects-suse-linux-enterprise-as-its-linux-based-option-on-shi-cloud-2012-05-02

eCube Systems Achieves Silver Status from Novell PartnerNet with a Special ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
eCube Systems achieves Silver Status from Novell and expands its support
for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and 12, the premier Linux operating system for
the enterprise. NXTware Remote, NXTminder and NXTera products gain enhanced
SUSE support.
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/05/02/ecube-systems-achieves-silver-status-novell-partnernet-special-focus-suse-linux

OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) Announces Changes in Distribution of its RDMA ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Changes in the distribution of OFS will take effect in the coming months at
the request of OFA users, Red Hat(R), SUSE and the Linux community at
kernel.org. For additional streamlining, the OFA will also begin aligning
its software with the Linux ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/openfabrics-alliance-ofa-announces-changes-in-distribution-of-its-rdma-middleware-and-drivers-with-linux-at-5th-annual-user-and-developer-workshop-2012-05-02

Linux scores on the server
Express Computer
Explaining that there were several versions of Linux available in the
market, Narayana Menon, Lead - Strategy and Marketing, The Attachmate Group
(SUSE, NetIQ, Attachmate and Novell) India/South Asia, pointed that all of
these versions were not ...
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/index.php/features/492-linux-scores-on-the-server

Mono team ports Android to C#
ZDNet UK (blog)
Xamarin, the development-platform company that has been building on Mono
since former sponsor Novell was bought by Attachmate, said on Tuesday that
the release allowed coders to write Android apps using C# and the .NET
virtual machine (VM), ...
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/mono-team-ports-android-to-c-10026061/

Quest Software Boasts Robust Migration Services
Channelnomics (blog)
Quest is also announcing support for GroupWise 7, making the migration of
Novell customers as painless as the rest of them. Most notably, Quest
Software is boasting that GroupWise Migrator for Exchange will come
equipped with intricate capabilities, ...
http://channelnomics.com/2012/05/01/quest-software-boasts-robust-migration-services/

Libre Office is taking off 'like a rocket'
TechRadar UK
By Linux Format from Linux Format Issue 156 April 29th 2012 Michael Meeks
is a long-time OpenOffice, now Libre Office, contributor and employee of
Novell, now Attachmate. We caught up with him to get the inside perspective
on the massive changes they, ...
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/libre-office-is-taking-off-like-a-rocket-1077797

LibreOffice fires shots across OpenOffice bow
ITworld.com
Meeks, a SUSE Linux developer and key contributor to the LibreOffice
project stewarded by The Document Foundation, has posted a progress report
on LibreOffice on his blog that takes great pains to not only show how far
LibreOffice has gotten, ...
http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/272430/libreoffice-fires-shots-across-openoffice-bow

For Google Chairman Schmidt, Maybe Monopoly Was The Goal
Forbes
Not long after my analysis of the Google antitrust probe hit the web, a
former Novell employee e-mailed with a tale that might offer some insight
into the thinking of Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman. Schmidt
joined Google in 2001 and led it ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/04/27/for-google-chairman-schmidt-maybe-monopoly-was-the-goal/

IBM plays nice with Red Hat and SUSE on Linux, Canonical not in the gang
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
"exploit the cost efficiency of Linux and virtualisation" for
business-critical workloads using Red Hat and SUSE. Oh sorry, that means
Big Data analysis and the management of industry-specific applications --
it also means work to create open source ...
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/open-source-insider/2012/04/ibm-plays-nice-with-red-hat-and-suse-on-linux-canonical-not-in-the-gang.html

IBM Linux Support Gets an Upgrade
Midsize Insider
The servers are designed to run either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Suse
Linux Enterprise Server, providing maximum flexibility to IT shops. The
integrated system offerings that leverage these servers include one
dedicated to Big Data analytics, ...
http://midsizeinsider.com/en-us/article/ibm-linux-support-gets-an-upgrade

NewWave Software Licensing Announces Low Prices on Symantec, Cisco, Microsoft ...
Midland Daily News
NewWave Software Licensing carries over 55000 software licenses from
companies such as Cisco, IBM, Novell, Symantec and Microsoft, at prices up
to 30% off retail price. NewWave Software Licensing is marking down prices
of up to 30% off of retail price ...
http://www.ourmidland.com/prweb/article_66988d9e-be11-5e92-958e-783fbd973c0e.html

How to Sync the NOOK with Novell GroupWise
MarketWatch (press release)
When used in conjunction with CompanionLink, DejaOffice can sync the
NOOK(TM) Color and NOOK Tablet, with popular CRM databases, including
Microsoft(R) Outlook(R), Sage ACT!, Palm(R) Desktop, IBM(R) Lotus Notes,
Novell(R) GroupWise, Highrise(R), ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-sync-the-nook-with-microsoft-outlook-2012-04-27

GWAVA Augments Messaging Security with Image Detection from Image ...
SYS-CON Media
By Business Wire Image Analyser (www.image-analyzer.com) announced today
that their image detection software has been selected by GWAVA (www.
http://www.sys-con.com/node/2261786

Amtel Names Tech Veteran Richard Bliss as New Chief Marketing Officer
Marketwire
Bliss joins Amtel from GWAVA, a collaboration security company, ... He was
instrumental in growing GWAVA from a small regional organization into a
global ...
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/amtel-names-tech-veteran-richard-bliss-as-new-chief-marketing-officer-1647160.htm

Suse sings of Raspberry Pi
Fudzilla
Brian Green, managing director, SUSE UK & Ireland said that the Raspberry
Pi will provide a generation of young learners with the opportunity to
explore the world of programming and coding. Green said that the gear's
arrival comes at a time when there ...
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26868-suse-sings-of-raspberry-pi

How to Choose an Enterprise Linux Distro
InternetNews.com
By Sean Michael Kerner | April 20, 2012 HP now certifies Red Hat, SUSE and
Ubuntu Linux operating systems on their ProLiant server and as such, their
salesforce and resellers could potentially direct customers to specific
distributions for a given ...
http://www.internetnews.com/software/how-to-choose-an-enterprise-linux-distro.html

Report reveals who's writing Linux
SDTimes.com
If all committed changes to the kernel are considered, Novell is the second
most prolific contributor of all time, with a 6.4% share of the code
written. However, since the release of 2.6.36, Intel has unseated Novell,
with over 5000 patches committed ...
http://www.sdtimes.com/link/36504