independent software vendors

The VAR Guy: "The virtual appliance strategy will allow Canonical and its ISVs (independent software vendors) to develop software bundles that are easily installed and configured — with little or no need for integrators to master key hardware configuration steps."

Internet News: "LSB 4.0, set for release by the end of this year, could be the catalyst that enables independent software vendors, or ISVs TERM (define), to develop applications that will run on any LSB-compliant Linux distribution.

If it gets adopted, LSB 4 could bring a new wave of multidistribution Linux application development."

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.