Astrum Inc. , a software security company in Carrollton, Texas, has filed suit against Novell Inc .

Astrum claims that Novell violated its contract regarding development of the mini-operating system appliance that Novell launched last month.

Novell’s JeOS or Just enough Operating System, is a miniature version of the SUSE Linux Enterprise OS, which was created to help independent software vendors develop or deploy new SUSE-based applications easier and faster.

Filed in U.S. District Court in...