Novell's position is that they will be a Linux application and services
company. Netware will not die...but it will run on Linux. CA has a
huge partnership with them, and they have a real interest in Linux...but
NOT as a distro company. Interestingly enough, I seemed to notice a
very nice customer presence at their booth at Linux World!!
>From what I am told from our higher-ups, Microsoft is particularly
unhappy about Novell's moves. Awwwwww.
-----Original Message-----
From: William Coulter [mailto:wrcoulter30@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:31 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Novell
I have heard a similar thing. This person said that novell is
converting to linux. Derek, what you said makes more since. If novell
is to abandon netware then they would be stupid. To have a mix of linux
and netware is sound business practice. William
--- Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> "We all enter this world in the | Support Electronic Freedom
> same way: naked; screaming; soaked | http://www.eff.org/
> in blood. But if you live your | http://www.anti-dmca.org/
> life right, that kind of thing |---------------------------
> doesn't have to stop there." -- Dana Gould
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
> Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
> posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
> official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 17:39:42 EDT