Why is it cross-platform with Windows? I thought Novell were selling me something that was better? You see, this is where Novell fails. It isn’t magically going to make things happen and move them forwards. So what? Porting stuff to Linux doesn’t amount to getting anything done to arrest the haemorrhaging of Netware customers. Has Novell “done absolutely nothing” in the past four years? That is about as incorrect of a statement as you can make on the subject.

Can they do a better job with many facets of their business? Absolutely. Has Novell done a good job selling their products? Clearly not. Ported DNS/DHCP directory integrated services to linux. Rebuilt part(server.exe) of NetWare to be virtual machine aware. Built the next generation Zen platform on linux Ported GroupWise to linux(cross platform enabled to span over NetWare, Linux, and Windows) Ported eDirectory to linux(cross platform enabled to span over NetWare, Linux, and Windows) In the past four years, Novell has done the following: What have Novell done in the past four years with respect to the competition? Other than not actually compete with their competitors and sign a deal with said competitor that says “Pretty please, don’t hurt us!”, they have done absolutely nothing. You know the old saying, if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen really applies to this. The solution is not to revert to conspiracies, do you honestly think that companies like Red Hat or Novell are simply going to just chalk this up to some nefarious reasons, or are they simply going to work harder at marketing their product and improving customer relations and communications? I will leave it to someone else to explain exactly how much more wrong it would be if the report falsley claimed that Linux was growing at an outstanding rate when it actually was not.

My god, I was reading about this a year ago in an article about Novell.Īnd in a day when so many are quick to point to blogs and wikipedia, it is quite ridiculous to outright dismiss an article by Eweek simply because it reports something that doesn’t mesh with how you want the world to work.

What is so difficult to understand about this. You are looking for a conspiracy where none exists.Īnyone half in tune to the market would have told you that as businesses finished migrating to Linux from Unix, sales would slow down. This has been reported in many other channels. This article, sad to say is not exactly news.

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