Novell buys Ximian

Former owner of the Unix code Novell has shown it's faith in the open source community by purchasing Gnome Desktop company, Ximian. "Novell pledged to continue fostering two high-profile, open-source efforts under the auspices of Boston-based Ximian, including the Gnome project for creating a Linux desktop and the Mono project, which will allow companies to run Microsoft .Net applications on Linux."(CNet) "Ximian also has some real live products to call its own, notably Ximian Red Carpet, a centralized software management technology. Overtime, Red Carpet is to be tightly integrated into Novell ZenWork, Novell says."(The Register) No price was mentioned on the sale.