Novell News

On Wednesday, July 16, US District Judge Dale Kimball ruled in the the SCO v. Novell lawsuit and ordered SCO Group to pay Novell more than $2.5 million based on SCO’s unauthorized UNIX agreement with Sun Microsystems.

We think this is great news for Novell and for the open source community. We’re very pleased this ruling reaffirms and strengthens Novell’s ownership of the UNIX SVRX copyrights and vindicates Novell’s continuing efforts to protect the open source community from SCO’s claims. This ruling underlines the court’s earlier decision, issued in August 2007, which found that Novell, not SCO, owns the copyrights to UNIX SVRX code, and further undermines SCO’s claims against Linux users.

We see a pattern in the legal judgments made in this case: Decision after decision makes it clearer and clearer that SCO’s legal claims against Linux have no merit.

BtoB, a magazine for marketing strategists, has just named Novell’s Vice President of Global Brand Management and Corporate Communications Phil Juliano to its Who’s Who in B-to-B 2008. The Who’s Who list features thought leaders and movers and shakers across a broad spectrum of marketing. Nominations were submitted by readers, marketing organizations, industry experts and the magazine’s editorial staff.

Phil was chosen for his leadership of Novell’s brand positioning, marketing and advertising efforts, which includes the recently-launched “Making IT work as one” campaign and a redesign of the Novell corporate Web site.

The Novell Teaming + Conferencing video produced for our BrainShare 2008 event was recently awarded a bronze Telly Award. Prestigious awards in the advertising industry, the Telly Awards honor video and film production, as well as the best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs.

Not only is the video award winning, but it provides a creative look at what Novell has to offer for teaming and group productivity. Check out the video here.

SourceForge.net has highlighted ICEcore as its project of the month for July.

ICEcore is a Novell sponsored open source project that evolved out of SiteScape. The project is focused on developing an open source collaboration platform, which today provides forums, wikis, blogs, file folders, project management functions, and other tools to help teams boost their productivity.

To learn more about ICEcore from the developers who work on it every day, check out the SourceForge project of the month here.