On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 01:16, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:18:17PM -0400, Steven Buehler wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:53, Eric Jahn wrote:
> > > by the way, did anyone see the headline that Novell bought Ximian?
> > > Also, they're making Groupwise for Linux...
> > >
> > Yep, did the purchase a month or so ago. Novell intends to more or less
> > abandon the old NetWare platform and immerse itself in the Linux
> > market.SWB
>
> Novell hasn't actually said this, that I know of. I've heard rumors
> about it, but so far as I know, Novell hasn't said they'll be getting
> rid of Netware. It would be an extraordinarily bad move for Novell to
> become another Linux distro company. As we've seen, it's hard to make it
> in that market. Red Hat seems to be the latest example of this.
They haven't said that they're ditching Novell explicitly, but what they
have said explicitly is that they _will_ be making all Novell services
available running natively on top of Linux. e.g. they are building
tools such that a linux box can easily replace a Novell server box.
It sounds like their strategy _is_ to EOL Novell as a dedicated server
platform and start migrating clients over to running Novel Services on
Linux.
Which IMNSHO is an amazingly smart business move. They keep all the
benefits of having a "proprietary" platform with the tools they build
and sell, their customers retain the same services and abilities they
have had under Novell for years with an easy upgrade path, and they lose
all the headache of having to maintain their own OS.
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