HP on Linux and Novell on OpenDocument
HP signs a deal with Mandriva to preinstall Linux on desktop systems it sells throughout Latin America and Brazil. (Matched with all the support Brazil and its neighboring countries are giving to FOSS, this part of the world is becoming Linux country.)
Novell makes a formal announcement reaffirming its support of the OpenDocument Format and will even increase support for it in the next version of Suse Linux. “In addition, Novell is working to promote ODF along with Sun Microsystems–the company that launched OpenOffice.org–Google, IBM and Red Hat. And Novell is a member of OASIS technical committee that publishes and governs the ODF standard.”