Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal

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News: Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal
News: Users upset over Google Analytics outage
News: Spyware bill's chances uncertain in U.S. Senate
News: IBM hints at blade servers for small firms
News: Groups praise U.S. broadband data bill
Related Reading: Coalition pushes for US broadband plan
Q&A: Google hearts IT managers
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Novell goes public with terms of Microsoft Linux deal
Novell Inc. has published details of its landmark November 2006 partnership agreements with Microsoft Corp.


Users upset over Google Analytics outage
The Google Analytics Web site monitoring service suffered an outage that affected some users for more than 24 hours this week, prompting many to vent on blogs and forums their frustration with the situation and with what they perceived as unresponsiveness on Google Inc.'s part.


Spyware bill's chances uncertain in U.S. Senate
An antispyware bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed this week earned praise from cybersecurity groups, but faces an uncertain future in the Senate.


IBM hints at blade servers for small firms
IBM said Thursday that it plans to build a blade server system for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB). For IBM, that means customers with fewer than 1,000 employees.


Groups praise U.S. broadband data bill
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reconsider what bandwidth rates qualify as broadband, a move that won praise from some groups that call current broadband penetration statistics misleading.

Related Reading: Coalition pushes for US broadband plan
Fifty-four organizations, including Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and TiVO Inc., have called on the U.S. government to create a national broadband policy, saying there's no plan now in place focused on providing affordable access for all residents.


Q&A

Google hearts IT managers
With the launch of the Google Apps suite last year, Google Inc. became a provider of hosted collaboration and communication software for small and medium-size organizations, and it made clear its aspirations to lure large-company IT managers and CIOs with the suite's Premier Edition, introduced in February. This move, which puts it in direct competition with software heavyweights like Microsoft Corp., builds on Google's first steps as an enterprise vendor years ago when it launched its first enterprise search product.


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