Mono Tools lets Visual Studio developers use the Microsoft IDE for cross-platform application development

Novell makes more evident what was obvious from the very start - that it puts Microsoft's interests ahead of anything else

New evidence confirms that Novell is still advancing interests that are seemingly conflicting to its own

Novell's dependence on Microsoft increases. Novell is not only giving up on tools which compete against Microsoft’s [1, 2, 3, 4]. It actively embraces Microsoft’s vision of technology and helps Microsoft in a variety of different ways.

To date, Novell has had strong usage of its online SUSE Studio Linux appliance development service, with over 250,000 software appliances built. Even with that success, Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) sees a need to expand the effort with a new SUSE Appliance Toolkit providing an on-premises version of SUSE Studio, as well as a new Lifecycle Management Server to manage appliance updates.

Novell brings its Mono development tools to proprietary platforms and ignores the TomTom-imposed warning signs

Novell and Mono, SourceForge and Windows, and other attempts to bend FOSS the Microsoft way.

We recently showed how Microsoft is ’stealing’ from Novell’s GroupWise. Is this the company that Novell is serving in so many ways? Why? Has Novell forgotten the past so quickly? Examples from the news of Novell problems and loss of business to Microsoft.

"Not since SCO has there been a company so reviled by the open source community as Novell following its deal with Microsoft.