All Posts Tagged Novell

How not to go to jail for insider trading

March 3rd, 2010 | 2 comments

I’m not going to jail for trading in Novell. In fact, I’m not going to trial, there will be no indictment…hell, I’m not even going to be investigated. Several years ago I identified Novell as a buyout target. I will not go into my reasoning, but let’s just say I did so before it actually [...]

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Open source getting the security hit from both ends

January 11th, 2006 | No comments

When I say “hit” I don’t mean getting hammered either. Novell just announced that they are going to be releasing their AppArmor intrusion prevention software under the GPL. The product will likely get some improvements from the OS community, albeit at the expense of Homeland Security adding many line items on the Linux side of [...]

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Novell buys Immunix

May 12th, 2005 | No comments

Immunix, a security software firm concentrating on Linux apps, has been purchased by Novell. No intense speculation here – Novell is building on its Linux portfolio, and having security software in its SUSE distros makes tons of sense.

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