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• Xamarin adds Android designer to Visual Studio

  By Paul Krill | 15 May, 2012 20:08

  Xamarin, with an upgrade to its Mono for Android SDK on Monday, is adding a drag-and-drop, graphical designer for building Android application interfaces within either Microsoft's Visual Studio or Xamarin's own MonoDevelop IDE.

• APC by Schneider Electric appoints Andrew Sylvester and Grant Barnes

  By Nermin Bajric | 06 March, 2012 10:31

  Integrated critical power and cooling services provider, APC by Schneider Electric, has appointed Andrew Sylvester as sales manager for datacentre software, and Grant Barnes as professional services and engineering solutions manager for the Pacific region.

• DOJ approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

  By Grant Gross | 14 February, 2012 10:24

  The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Google's acquisition of mobile-phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion, following the European Commission's approval earlier in the day.

• Plans to migrate LAPD to Google's cloud apps dropped

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 22 December, 2011 22:07

  After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google's hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements.

• Microsoft to ask for dismissal of Novell lawsuit

  By John Ribeiro | 20 December, 2011 19:29

  Microsoft intends to ask the court to dismiss a Novell antitrust lawsuit, after a hung jury in Utah could not come to an accord on the case last week.

• Microsoft-Novell antitrust case ends in hung jury

  By Joab Jackson and James Niccolai | 17 December, 2011 11:37

  After a two-month trial, Novell's US$1.3 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft ended on Friday in a hung jury, according to a spokesman for Microsoft who was at the court.

• Novell lawsuit against Microsoft goes to jury

  By Joab Jackson | 15 December, 2011 07:35

  A Utah jury has begun deliberating over a US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit Novell first brought against Microsoft in 2004. Observers of the case expect the jury to reach a decision as early as Wednesday evening.

• Opinion: Look who's discovered the virtues of openness

  By Preston Gralla | 05 December, 2011 22:06

  You know the stereotype: Microsoft is the sworn enemy of openness, unwilling to open its code or hardware to others. It's a monopolist bent on world domination, willing to use its lawyers and market strength to ensure that Windows and Office don't face any serious competition.

• Gates to testify in Novell suit

  By Joab Jackson | 22 November, 2011 05:37

  Ex-Microsoft CEO and current Chairman Bill Gates is testifying Monday in U.S. Federal Court in a seven-year-old, US$1 billion antitrust lawsuit by Novell.

• Novell has refocused to recapture past glory: Attachmate

  By Patrick Budmar | 18 November, 2011 09:00

  By returning its umbrella companies to their roots, the Attachmate Group hopes to reinvigorate its business strengths, according to the keynote addresses at the organisation’s Powerful Connection event in Sydney.

• IN PICTURES: The opening of Attachmate Group's new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Melbourne

  By Patrick Budmar | 17 November, 2011 16:59

  Attachmate, Novell, NetIQ and SUSE opened their new Asia-Pacific headquarters in Melbourne, bringing together 60 staff from all four business units onto one site.

• SUSE Linux top exec: Interoperability is key

  By John Gallant | 14 October, 2011 01:37

  Since April, Nils Brauckmann has had the future of enterprise Linux in his hands. That's when the Attachmate Group completed its acquisition of Novell and split the company into two operating units: Novell and SUSE. As president and GM of SUSE, long-time Attachmate executive Brauckmann is responsible for bringing Suse Linux Enterprise Server and other open source products to market. In this latest installment of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, Brauckmann shared with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant his views on the future of open source, his strategy for competing against Red Hat, and SUSE's plans for helping customers build private and hybrid clouds. He also outlined his philosophy for working successfully with the open source community, talked about the role desktop Linux will and won't play in the enterprise, and explained where SUSE's partnership will Microsoft is headed.

• The new Novell

  By John Dix | 05 October, 2011 04:40

  Novell, which was acquired by The Attachmate Group in April, wants to regain its status as an IT icon and will try to do so by focusing its efforts on its core assets and rebuilding relationships with its huge installed base. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Novell President Bob Flynn and VP of Product Management and Marketing Eric Varness for a briefing on their rebuilding plans.

• yARN: Are patents all that great in IT?

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 22 September, 2011 14:21

  While I was in Japan touring Toughbook facilities, one of the more interesting discussions I had with one of the Japanese execs was in regards to patents.

• COMMUNITY SLIDESHOW: Attachmate dines Novell partners in Sydney

  By Patrick Budmar | 05 September, 2011 16:17

  The Australian channel partners of infrastructure software vendor, Novell, have had their achievements recognised at an exclusive dinner held at Wildfire restaurant the overseas passenger terminal in Sydney.