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Novell acquires open source vendor

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
Johannesburg, 18 Feb 2008

Novell acquires open source vendor

Novell, seeking a real-time makeover for its collaboration wares, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired SiteScape, the developer of open source collaboration tools, says New York Times.

Last year, the two began a partnership that resulted in Novell Teaming and Conferencing, which is based on SiteScape's ICEcore collaboration tools, a Web-based team workspace and real-time conferencing platform that includes Web 2.0 and social networking technologies. The Teaming and Conferencing package was released in October 2007.

Novell's current GroupWise collaboration platform had been missing much of the real-time and Web 2.0 technologies that are beginning to define the next wave of collaboration.

Red Hat, Hyperic team up

Red Hat and Hyperic have formed an open source project for developing a core set of IT infrastructure management capabilities, the companies announced on Thursday, says Infoworld.

Dubbed RHQ, the project's source code will be available under the GPL v2 licence, according to a Red Hat spokeswoman. The companies have set up a Web site for the project at www.rhq-project.org.

The RHQ project's roots lie in the pact formed in 2005 between Hyperic and JBoss, which saw the latter company use code from Hyperic's Web infrastructure management product, Hyperic HQ, as a basis for JBoss Operations Network. Red Hat acquired JBoss in 2006, and Hyperic moved to an open source model.

Android sparks questions

Mobile World Congress this year has offered a storm of announcements and demonstrations surrounding Google's Android mobile operating system, with Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and others showing off early implementations, reports eetimes.

However, the demonstrations of Android, a Linux-based, open mobile platform, sparked as many questions as answers.

One open question is what it will mean to be an "open source" semiconductor manufacturer in a market as competitive as mobile-handset applications processors.

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