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November 04, 2006
Novell (maybe) strikes gold
Reading Stephen's blog entry, I was gonna congratulate Novell for finally pulling themselves out of the mud that Microsoft and market evolution pushed them into since early the 1990S. The relevance of a Network Operating System - Novell Netware was pushed into relative obscurity as Microsoft produced Windows NT - a one-size-fits-all solution that could be deployed as a workstation and a server. Novell's original bread-and-butter NOS kept losing market share, only surviving in entrenched shops even though Netware services were initially much superior to Microsoft's Active Directory. Novell tried getting into desktop Office applications by purchasing WordPerfect that disappeared with lots of cash and was sold to Corel. Eventually, they bought into SUSE Linux and decided to deprecate their Holy Grail of Netware - a very brave decision but I thought, well, everyone else does Linux, what's the diff?
Well finally, after all these years, Novell has something that Stephen Ballmer wants.
- a Linux platform that Microsoft can buy into - not some Open Source, hirsute hippie junk that is freeware, unsupported, that you can't arm wrestle or sue.
- engineering skills in that platform
- leading edge technology that Microsoft doesn't have (in parts).
Ok, at 0908hrs AEDT 4th Nov 2006, I followed the Novell Press Release link and ended in an Apache/Jasper exception.
Shall we read too much into this? Linux sucks? Novell's incompetent? No. It's what I have said all along.
IT and Computers break. Regardless of how much it costs, how much effort you put into it, how well engineered it is. The better solutions break less often. That's life.
Posted by Anandasim at November 4, 2006 08:29 AM
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