Palamida™, a provider of software intellectual property (IP) management and compliance products and services, today announced its participation in the Microsoft and Novell Linux announcement. Background Microsoft and Novell today announced a new agreement supporting broad collaboration on Windows and Linux interoperability and support. As part of the agreement, the two companies will provide each other’s customers with patent coverage for their respective products.

Palamida was invited as a key participant in the announcement because of its domain expertise in software intellectual property compliance, and Mark Tolliver, Palamida CEO, commented, “One of the results of the rapid growth of open source software is a world of ‘mixed code” – IT environments comprised of both commercial and open source software. At Palamida, we are dedicated to assisting our customers with the new intellectual property (IP) compliance, licensing and software asset management issues that result. From our perspective, today’s announcement from Microsoft and Novell is an important advance in interoperability in this mixed code world – interoperability not only with respect to technical issues, but also to IP issues. This is a major win for customers who will now receive a whole new level of support and assurance in their deployment of mixed code IT environments.”

Members of the media interested in speaking with Mark Tolliver, Palamida should contact Randy Wambold at 781-672-3119 or rwambold@chenpr.com or Barb Heffner at 781-672-3112 or bheffner@chenpr.com.

Other Speakers

Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft

Ron Hovsepian, President and CEO, Novell

Brad Smith, SVP and General Counsel, Microsoft

Jeff Jaffe, EVP and CTO, Novell

John Dragoon, SVP and CMO, Novell

Shane Robison, EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP

Randy Cowen, CIO, Goldman Sachs

Mark Tolliver, CEO, Palamida

About Palamida

Palamida answers the question "What's in your code?" by providing an unprecedented level of software transparency. By empowering customers with insightful information about their software assets, Palamida products and services offer accurate evaluations of software during acquisitions, on-going testing against intellectual property policy during application development and governance of software environments. Palamida’s customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. Founded in 2003, Palamida's investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, WaldenVC and Stanford University. Read Palamida's blog at palamida.com/blog or for more information visit palamida.com.