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So Novell has won over SCO in court today, with plenty of coverage as expected. But less has changed today than most people think.

SCO's case against IBM is dead, and its case against Novell is dead. Novell's case against SCO has just passed stage one, and still has leeway to sue others.

I'd been asked by someone if this meant that SCO would finally give up in court, or risk opening a pandora's box that would allow Novell to go after more than the $2.5M it was awarded today.

To me the answer seems obvious.

Research from Cutter Consortium's Benchmark Review shows that momentum is growing for green IT at firms that don't yet have eco-friendly policies in place.

This article at Greener Computing makes an interesting point that will probably become more popular over time. Certainly the idea of using virtualization to allow one computer to do the work of many is a step in the greener direction.

Sustainable procurement policy in New Zealand to be mandatory for central government agencies