03.12.08
Quick Mention: Novell’s Quarterly Report (March 2008)
A couple of days ago, Novell released another dysphoric document which follows another. Here is Novell’s Quarterly Report, which should also be available for download directly from the SEC’s Web site.
One person who took a closer look at the document finds some bits of text which pretty much align with what was clarified in the annual report for 2007.
Novell’s latest 10-Q quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides a flashback to its 2004 lawsuit against Microsoft under The Clayton Act, alleging the software giant wrongfully “eliminated competition” from the office productivity space.
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Notes Novell: “We intend to oppose the Petition (to go to the U.S. Supreme Court) and proceed with discovery before the trial court.” Recent history has shown that Microsoft may have reasons for not being huge fans of the discovery process.
When will Novell finally make some reasonable progress on this case? Is Novell just too reluctant to bother what it openly describes as a “partner”, on which it depends? █
Past posts about the WordPerfect case:
- A Peephole into Novell's Past Sufferings from Microsoft
- Novell vs. Microsoft Case Steps Ahead, Other Legal Cases Hit Microsoft
- Novell Should Learn from Microsoft's Assault on WordPerfect
- Bill Gates and His 'Attack Groups'
- The WordPerfect Lawsuit and the Abused Wife Called Novell
- Blast from the Past: A Look Back at Microsoft's Predatory Response to Novell
- When Companies Eat Microsoft Bait, It Means Trouble
- Novell OpenOffice.org, $348 Million, and the Story Nobody Covered
- One Year Later: ”Novell: From hero to zero in sixty seconds...”
- Corel Serves Microsoft, But Does it Even Better
- Corel, Like Novell, is Microsoft's Friend, Not Its Competitor
- History's Lesson: Microsoft May Use Novell to Kill OpenOffice, ODF
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.