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By: stillwtr19
14 Apr 2007, 07:18 PM EDT
Msg. 181652 of 181655

Sliver a technical summary of Siteflash

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Therefore a need exists for a method of generating complex software applications that reduces or eliminates production delays and the workload for programmers due to changes in content and/or form. This method should separate form, content and function so that each area can be independently changed.

The present invention provides a system and method for generating software applications that substantially eliminates or reduces disadvantages and problems associated with previously developed systems and methods used for generation of software applications. More specifically, the present invention provides a method for generating software applications in an arbitrary object framework. The method of the present invention separates content, form, and function of the computer application so that each may be accessed or modified independently. The method of this invention includes creating arbitrary objects, managing the arbitrary objects throughout their life cycle, and deploying the arbitrary objects in a design framework for use in complex computer applications.

The present invention provides an important technical advantage in that content, form, and function are separated from each other in the generation of the software application. Therefore, changes in design or content do not require the intervention of a programmer. This advantage decreases the time needed to change various aspects of the software application. Consequently, cost is reduced and versatility is increased.

The present invention provides another technical advantage in that users are not required to use a proprietary language to encode. These arbitrary objects may include encapsulated legacy data, legacy systems and custom programming logic from essentially any source in which they may reside. Any language supported by the host system, or any language that can be interfaced to by the host system, can be used to generate an object within the application.

The present invention provides yet another technical advantage in that it can provide a single point of administrative authority that can reduce security risks. For instance, a large team of programmers can work on developing a large group of arbitrary objects within the object library. If one object has a security hole, an administrator can enter the object library and disable that arbitrary object.

Still another technical advantage of the present invention is that it enables syndication of the software application. As noted above, functionality is separate from form and content. Consequently, a user can easily introduce a new look for the application or syndicate the content and functionality of the application to another group without having to recode all of the objects needed to access content.

Another technical advantage of the present invention is that it allows for personalization and profiling. With personalization, the web presentation is tailored to the specific needs of the web user based on the user's past history. Profiling also enables tailoring a web site or presentation. Profiling is dependent on environmental variables such as browser type or IP address.



(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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 I wonder what the results will be. Can hardly wait to find out.  

 http://www.powerpage.org/2007/04/poll_what_do_you_make_of_the_mac_os_x_105_delay.html

April 13, 2007

Poll: What Do You Make of the Mac OS X 10.5 Delay?

http://poll.pollhost.com/cG93ZXJwYWdlCTExNzY0ODkyOTUJRUVFRUVFCTAwMDAwMAlBcmlhbAlBc3NvcnRlZA/

How has the Mac OS X 10.5 delay affected you?

Selection   I'm irritated at Apple.  328 votes They should be able to complete the iPhone and Mac OS X 10.5 in time for June.  241 votes I'll get by with Mac OS X 10.4 for the time being.  796 votes I'm glad they're taking their time with development.  1,035 votes I'll look for third party solutions to provide what I was looking for with Mac OS X 10.5.  16 votes I'm looking into a Windows-based PC as a result of this.  56 votes I'm having 20,000 pizzas sent to Steve Jobs' house.  180 votes Poll results are subject to error. Pollhost does not pre-screen the content of polls created by Pollhost customers.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 7:51 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 14 April 2007 7:54 PM EDT

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Some posts from RagingBull on SaaS.  

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By: Sliver_Fox
14 Apr 2007, 12:27 PM EDT
Msg. 181632 of 181648
(This msg. is a reply to 181631 by POSCASHFLOW.)

POS, good news . . . bad news . . .

The good news with Saas is that your software remains up to date. The bad news is that your software remains up to date. Thus, businesses will not be able to control the software they use. While an "older" version of the software may work for a particular application; there is no guarantee that the new version will.

IMHO, this will not be a major problem, but the law of unintended consequences come into play. Thus, when updating a program, great care will have to be taken so that a particular usage in the past will still remain a usage now.

While the IT VP may not feel this a problem, it could. I do not know any top management people who like to have a division or group screaming at them "What have you done to us". Whether anything was done . . . or not. A convenient excuse. A "reason" for failure to execute.

Interesting future we have here.

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Buy; LT Rating- Buy)

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By: mm-buster
14 Apr 2007, 02:19 PM EDT
Msg. 181636 of 181648
(This msg. is a reply to 181632 by Sliver_Fox.)

'The good news with Saas is that your software remains up to date. The bad news is that your software remains up to date. Thus, businesses will not be able to control the software they use. While an "older" version of the software may work for a particular application; there is no guarantee that the new version will.' - Sliver-Fox 181632 14 Apr 2007, 12:27 PM EDT

(Sliver demonstrates either a profound lack of understanding as to the capabilities inherent in web-based applications and 'hosting' web services or he demonstrates a deftly deceptive hand in that he is talking to the general population of potential buyers in VCSY who have no technical knowledge whatsoever. Fortunately for them, one does not need much technical knowledge in assessing SaaS concepts. It simply needs common sense and a view that software can be provided to users as a tool; not as an object to be cared for and pampered but to be used and altered as the work requirements advance or digress. Try THAT with CD-Based general purpose applications.

Sliver is speaking in terms of hosted on-demand software offerings where a company [such as Microsoft and CDC] would be offering things like MSWord as a stand alone application provided over the internet from an on-demand hosting center. First get this straight. SaaS requires on-demand architecture as a prerequisite to even attempting SaaS. Microsoft's delay in implementing SaaS and CDC's apparent failure to successfully pull of SaaS demonstrates the falicy of a software producer constructing an SaaS system

A true SaaS system is going to be an integrated business structure offered over the internet [VPN and ultra-highspeed] with all applications like Microsoft's and even CDC's home-grown versions of CRM and HR and whatever other vertical they might want to 'represent' buried under layers of abstraction. The SaaS user never sees the 'application'. The on-demand user is stuck with as SliverFux rightfully testifies.

I would agree with what the poster says if you buy or rent or help yourself to SaaS services provided by some of the software houses because they are not going to know your business and they will only be able to give you a resonable facsimile of your kind of business. You will have to doubtless hire developers to tailor and finish the job of customizing it for you. True SaaS allows the user to cusomize the way the 'application' works. Microsoft is forced to folow that track of 'general purpose' construction even though the SaaS model as envisioned by SiteFlash allows for every user to have exactly what that user needs or wants within the boundaries of the entire SaaS library content for that particular set of methods along with the standards and governance related.

See the difference between somebody like VCSY who can field a technology that virtualizes everything: even virtualizes the back-office [BO] third-party [3P] commercial-off-the-shelf [COTS]. In other words, a shrink wrapped application or a 'use-our-product' on-demand distribution channel is not where you want to lay your precious darling web 2.0 business baby down to sleep. Yuck. As Frank would protest 'You had me sleeping in urine?'.

So remember, Microsoft nor any general purpose application builder or provider doesn't know what you use your software for and you may need an entirely different userset of capabilities than 99% of the rest of the 'CD package' software use. In the case of buyng a one-size-fits-all application, you are stuck with doing it the way everybody else does it. That's good in keeping a standardized business or society. But as the old Soviet principles and 5 year plans demonstrate, it all gets to look the same and pretty damn drab at that.

And don't be a standout! If you are among the 1% working with that part of a 'general purpose' designed application, you will be a part of a very exclusive testing base. Then you would have to contact technical support for every item to be 'fixed' [patched more like it if you're using a general purpose] and hooboy what's that going to take?

With SaaS the baby knows how to walk and play football when you press the go button. Not so with the kind of applications and services Sliver is representing.)



(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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By: mm-buster
14 Apr 2007, 02:20 PM EDT
Msg. 181637 of 181648
(This msg. is a reply to 181636 by mm-buster.)

And another quote from that post:

'While the IT VP may not feel this a problem, it could. I do not know any top management people who like to have a division or group screaming at them "What have you done to us". Whether anything was done . . . or not. A convenient excuse. A "reason" for failure to execute. '

(Another excellent reason for going SaaS because you don't interface with ANY technical people That's what's so funny about the other side's argument against something like SaaS. They're being forced out of the IT closet. Forced out of the IT office. Forced out of the IT Department by an army of integrators, maintenance technicians and specialist nobody will ever have to see much less talk to or interact with.

Again, this lack of understanding apparently derives from the poster having no understanding of what SaaS means. He is from an on-demand [very old school like selecting tv programs with the remote]. With SaaS you have convergent capabilities tied in already with the third party applications [which are now in a mad scramble to include convergent technology] trying hard to remain relevant in a world where users are going to dictate what gets provided and used.

In Sliver's world each company is responsible for their own IT highs and lows. They eat the filet they gotta eat the crow and scabs as well. In the SaaS world a much larger and much more user-oriented technology base is at the user's fingertips where a single complaint brings a single remedy that propagates throughout the SaaS base immediately rather than being developed and maintained in one place having to be bombarded with the same question a million individual times.

No offense to Sliver - we all have limits on our knowledge and experience - but I would discount any advice Sliver is giving on this subject).


(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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By: mm-buster
14 Apr 2007, 02:21 PM EDT
Msg. 181638 of 181648
(This msg. is a reply to 181637 by mm-buster.)

In other words...
something like Microsoft Word would best be broken up into different sets of tools and offered across the web at varying rates for various capabilities. Least for more basic word-processing duties like formatting and templating. More for more advanced duties like Graphics and presentations.

Microsoft won't be able to even attempt that until Viridian and apparently Viridian is coing out around the same time as Apple's Leopard operating system - around October I think. I say this has to do with a fiscal year policy changeover in both businesses just given the month selected to release the software to the public.

The question I would like to have Sliver answer is why he thinks CDC and Microsoft are so far behind in this technology. And what do they do now?

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 5:24 PM EDT

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It is raining on peninsula today and I like rain; having been water creature in an imagined past life. What that means I don't know. For today muses are taking me into paths of other arts. Today I shall begin painting partially assembled replica of German Me163B Komet. I didn't fabricate parts, but I am connecting them together into whole 1:48 MASTER SERIES assembly. What I like is picture on box. It's a flaming orange Komet streaking past high-altitude bomber. Beautiful picture worth thousand words.

ps - No I know it's not a German accent. Guess again. 

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By: POSCASHFLOW
14 Apr 2007, 11:39 AM EDT
Msg. 181631 of 181631

Businesses Get Serious About Software As A Service

InformationWeek Research finds companies using the delivery model for a wider variety of applications.

By Mary Hayes Weier Lisa Smith
InformationWeek
Apr 14, 2007 12:01 AM (From the April 16, 2007 issue)

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199000824 

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

I will post the first page of the article here for a synopsis:

If you still consider software as a service a delivery model that makes sense only for sales force automation or small businesses, you're behind the times. Two out of three businesses are either buying or considering buying software via a subscription model, according to a recent InformationWeek Research survey.

That's put pressure on the big software vendors, prompting them to offer SaaS models or at least give lip service to the idea. Microsoft and SAP are among the companies developing more subscription offerings for customers, and Oracle president Charles Phillips is giving a presentation in New York this week on how its subscription software can lower customers' costs.

Phillips is preaching to the choir. InformationWeek found that 29% of the 250 business technology pros surveyed are using at least one licensed application that's hosted by a vendor and accessed over the Internet, typically for a monthly subscription fee. Thirty-five percent are planning to buy software that way or are considering it. And interest isn't just among small companies with minuscule IT budgets: 55% of respondents have annual revenue of more than $100 million, and a third have more than $1 billion in revenue.

Still, smaller businesses are big drivers of this approach. "SaaS is one of those technology delivery trends that will come from the bottom up; small and midsize companies will adopt it faster," says Ken Harris, CIO at Shaklee, a $500 million-a-year supplier of nutritional supplements, makeup, and other products. "Large companies will use integration and security as valid explanations not to do it," but those are solvable problems, he adds. The bigger issues are choosing the right vendors and having good service-level agreements in place, Harris says.

He should know. Before coming to Shaklee two years ago, Harris held CIO positions at Gap, Nike, and PepsiCo. "I have a much smaller budget and fewer people, but interestingly enough, I have the same breadth of application needs as I did at Gap or Pepsi," he says. "I still have to support financials and CRM, but as a midmarket CIO I have to find a lot of ways to cover the ground more cheaply, more efficiently, and quicker."

Shaklee began moving its IT infrastructure to a service-oriented architecture two years ago, and subscription software fits perfectly into that plan, Harris says. Shaklee had RightNow Technologies marketing and CRM software running within 120 days, spending in the six-figure range, he says. Similar projects at other companies where Harris was CIO cost millions of dollars and took 12 to 18 months using traditional CRM vendors. Shaklee has about 200 employees using the RightNow apps and plans to replace aging financial applications with those delivered in an SaaS model, he says.

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  In whole world nothingk more beautiful.

- Rasta Portunes Pumply Highly Worthing-Grammure.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 12:39 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, 14 April 2007 1:57 PM EDT

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Joe has an interesting comment here in. Obscure little comments are all that's really needed when the subject matter and the resulting bottleneck of misunderstandings and bad steps become clear.

I place this article here under Microsoft and VCSY to demonstrate continually the area where one would most likely find an architectural or systemic use of the kind of technology VCSY has mastered and Microsoft struggles with.

Yes, I know the article is about Apple operating system Leopard, but, like Doctor House, Doctor Barn believes with increasingly ill-tempered  conviction, the same affliction affecting Leopard is the same malady that struck down Longhorn. That's right. IP Envy.

The following article may explain some of the symptoms.

<Prominent Position of Honor

See also related 

April 13, 2007 11:20 AM

Leopard is One Stubborn Cat

Apple released no new version of iLife or iWork in January as expected and as had been past practice. Some insider sites, like ThinkSecret, have indicated that the software's absence had to do with features tied to Leopard. Apple could cede some marketing and sales to Vista, if iLife doesn't release until Leopard ships. Now, or very soon, would be a good time for Apple to pop out iLife and iWork. (above excerpted - more at URL)

Maybe part of the treatment should be to drop an iBall.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 4:06 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 13 April 2007 4:36 PM EDT

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Mood:  party time!

'Billy robs a bank. Then they ask him why? Says The sight of all that money makes me sad and cry. When he turns around. Then he gets a job. Now he doesn't know if what he worked for is a cob. Corn is not a fruit. Corn is not a pie. Corn is not a coconut or not a piece of rye bread is what you need. Not a corn soufle'. Cause when you do both corn and cob the flies won't stay away. Little Pete Eugene came to tinsel town. When he packed his bags away a saved gray whale was found. Little Billy Jean liked to sing and dance. Til the briars and brambles made a shambles of his pants. Then he looked around. Ev'rything was gone. That's when a micro-nothing got to be a big bee dong. Tacos and burritos make a yummy snack. Try to touch a peso and you get a stubby back...' 

'Cars coming!' 'Cars coming.'

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By: tepe
13 Apr 2007, 02:21 PM EDT
Msg. 181610 of 181620
(This msg. is a reply to 181558 by trypeace.)

trypeace, you noticed that too? A while ago they were claiming that VCSY could get $10 million to even $100 million from this case. LOL!! Now they even hint that vcsy might lose.

This "lil" case isn't over til the verdict is in.

That sez it all. LOL!i??

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By: mm-buster
13 Apr 2007, 02:29 PM EDT
Msg. 181612 of 181620
(This msg. is a reply to 181609 by tepe.)

Maybe Ross thought it was a slam-dunk when they
had Judge Lowe hearing the case and now with a bias judge they're not so confident, unless you and your gang got to the jurors! imo
Either way -Justice will prevail!!

(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Long; ST Rating- Strong Buy; LT Rating- Strong Buy)

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By: tepe
13 Apr 2007, 02:42 PM EDT
Msg. 181617 of 181620
(This msg. is a reply to 181613 by stockwabbit.)

Stockwabbit, when the last PR was issued the "longs" were jumping up and down about how the company was out of "stealth" mode. Now they're saying they'll be out of "stealth" after this trial. I'm sure there will be yet another reason for them to claim that the company is still in "stealth" mode months from now. The problem is, the "stealth" is just a lack of anything to say. IMO.i??

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 3:18 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 13 April 2007 3:41 PM EDT

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Mood:  accident prone

'Panty raider's party. Sitting at the lake. Do it in the bushes and you get a tummy ache.'

'FASTER.'

'Momma ran home. Daddy ran away. Now we got a baby dog and one that's on the way. Better tell 'em 'No'. Then say 'We will see'. Or you'll spit til Tuesday just to set the froggy free. When they mayor says, 'Sit here on my knee.' don't forget to wear long pants...'

'Car coming!' 'Car coming.' 'Hello Mister Silverberg.' 'Hello Mister Silverberg.'

'You kids you should do somethingk else besides ride mit dem Schvinsundrubbercycles at the end of the vork day. Go play in ze voods. All of you schtinkenheimerkinders should get a big BIG dose of ...''

'BRICK!' 'Heads up!'

'DUCK MISTER SILVERBERG!!!'

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By: tepe
13 Apr 2007, 02:17 PM EDT
Msg. 181609 of 181618
(This msg. is a reply to 181549 by RapidRobert2.)

RR2, your "facts" are "facts" as you see them. All I said is that Ross went to trial because they apparently thought they had a case...it's that simple. If they knew they were "screwed" as you claim, they would have settled out of court. They obviously think they can do better before a jury, or they wouldn't have pushed it this far. That's my opinion, and I think YOU are the one posting "misinformation and false presentation". This trial isn't over yet, so quit acting like it is.i??
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Updated: Friday, 13 April 2007 3:13 PM EDT

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From Orange to Albaturkey they traveled 'cross the broilin' highways of Texas and West in search of lost love and luxury. 'Norman? Norman, baby. When you gonna be my man?' 'Not never Samantha Sue. I gotta find myself out yonder in California. It's the land of endchantment and I here people bend over so you can sign the record deals on they's backs. It's the promise land for a artist such as I.' 'Oh Norman your intelligence is so sexy. You just drive me wild with all your philosophy and... ' 'No Samantha Sue. Don't touch my guitar.  I'm trying to stay pure to my art.' 'But, Norman, the neck on this guitar is where your hands have been. And you make so much art with those fingers of yours. I just want them...'

JILLY TURN THAT DAMN TV DOWN... 

Yes ma'am.

'Samantha Sue! You're making this way too hard to deal with.' 'Oh Norman, nothing between us could ever be too hard. We got our doublewide and each other. That is... if'n you'll let it stay hitched to your towbar, driver. Know what I mean?' *dap doop de duuuhhhhhh* Will Samantha Sue find her lonely path to love's embrace? Will Norman get to pick a pasty any higher than a minor g? Tune in tomorrow when Bob's Bilge Bubbles brings you 'Hot Wheels on the I-10'. *brrrrrrrppp dap doop dee dop do duhhhhhh whaaaaaaaaaa dibity doooo do bop doop dee doop dwee do booooo dah dah duhhh...

Jilly don't sit so close to the TV. In fact turn that off and go watch Baby Joe. Mister Silverberg's getting off work in a couple minutes and they got Baby Joe out there under a one by six jumping they's bikes off him. Make sure they get him out of the street before Mister Silverberg gets here cause you remember last time Mister Silverberg hanged up his differential on one of them one bys it launched him clean out of that convertible right up in the sycamore on Miss Hazel's yard. It took me three gasoline rags out of your daddy's shop to get that grease off Baby Joe's little tummy. Poor little thang.

And Jilly... no bricks. 

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By: dooshbare
13 Apr 2007, 12:57 PM EDT
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(This msg. is a reply to 181541 by tepe.)

tepe...I have read both your posts and RR's. You clearly are the one who lacks support of "facts". End of story son.i??

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:05 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 13 April 2007 2:33 PM EDT

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I cut and pasted this into a google search textbox: Microsoft + Exchange + Viridian and I was reminded of the Novell/Microsoft coupling done earlier and wondered how long before Microsoft (or Novell - we don't know who was the top in this negotiation since MisterSofty gave Novell a lot of money and most of what Novell did was sit there with a grin.) might show some fruit of those labors and loves lost wax mold.

So then I cut and pasted it from there to here. It's a  Novell, Inc. FORM 8-K November 2, 2006 filing . Just an artifact of a moment long ago with even longer ramifications and fiduciary impact. A spent capsule to remind us of the barriers business faces in the swim upstream only to be dashed to bits by the rubbery confines of 'the system'. Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Man either drink doo or get it in his eye.

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On November 2, 2006, Novell, Inc. (“Novell”) and Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) announced that they had entered into a Business Collaboration Agreement, a Technical Collaboration Agreement, and a Patent Cooperation Agreement. This set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements is designed to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together for customers.

Under the Business Collaboration Agreement, which expires January 1, 2012, Novell and Microsoft will market a combined offering. The combined offering will consist of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (“SLES”) and a subscription for SLES support along with Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Virtual Server and Microsoft Viridian that will be offered to customers desiring to deploy Linux and Windows in a virtualized setting. Microsoft will make an upfront payment to Novell of $240 million for SLES subscription “certificates,” which Microsoft may use, resell or otherwise distribute over the term of the agreement, allowing the certificate holder to redeem single or multi-year subscriptions for SLES support from Novell (entitling the certificate holder to upgrades, updates and technical support). Microsoft will spend $12 million annually for marketing Linux and Windows virtualization scenarios and will also spend $34 million over the term of the agreement for a Microsoft sales force devoted primarily to marketing the combined offering. Microsoft agreed that for three years it will not enter into an agreement with any other Linux distributor to encourage adoption of non-Novell Linux/Windows Server virtualization through a program substantially similar to the SLES subscription “certificate” distribution program.

The Technical Collaboration Agreement, which also runs until January 1, 2012, focuses on three areas:

• Novell and Microsoft will develop technologies to optimize SLES and Windows running as guests on each other's operating systems.
  
  
• Novell and Microsoft will work together and with independent software vendors to develop management tools for managing heterogeneous virtualization environments, which will enable each party's management tools to command, control and configure the other party's operating system in a virtual machine environment.

• Novell and Microsoft will work together on ways to make translators available to improve interoperability between Office Open XML and OpenOffice formats.

Under the Patent Cooperation Agreement, Microsoft commits to a covenant not to assert its patents against Novell's end-user customers for their use of Novell products and services for which Novell receives revenue directly or indirectly from such customers, with certain exceptions, while Novell commits to a covenant not to assert its patents against Microsoft's end-user customers for their use of Microsoft products and services for which Microsoft receives revenue directly or indirectly from such customers, with certain exceptions. Both Microsoft and Novell have payment obligations under the Patent Cooperation Agreement. Microsoft will make an up-front net payment to Novell of $108 million, and Novell will make ongoing payments of at least $40 million over five years to Microsoft based on percentages of Novell's Open Platform Solutions and Open Enterprise Server revenues.

 Don't you just love these color thingies? Now, when some delicate genius comes up with being able to edit the webpage directly wysiwyg instead of this container of a textbox with buttons and barricades... huh? huh? Throwback Crap.

Posted by Portuno Diamo at 2:01 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 13 April 2007 2:02 PM EDT

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