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IBM Takeover Of Novell?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why? dept.

umjaja96 writes: "Reuters is reporting that IBM is rumored to be looking to buy Novell. Perhaps Big Blue is looking to strengthen its mid-range and lower end servers with something not from Redmond?"

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  1. Microsoft to purchase AndoverNet by codejnki · · Score: 5
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) and AndoverNet (NasdaqNM:ANDN - news) on Monday declined to comment on rumors that Microsoft was looking to take over the electronic news service company.


    Shares of both companys did what is normally expected of over inflated speculative trading.


    ``We don't comment on rumors,'' said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.


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  2. Commodity directory services by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 5

    If the rumor is true, IBM may be looking to do what we all know Novell needs to do to stay alive, yet doesn't have the guts to do: open-source the Novell Directory. What have they got to lose? Market share? That's trickling away already: Windows NT and Linux are absolutely clobbering Netware in the marketplace. Novell's crown jewels right now are NDS. NDS, a robust, scalable, portable directory service. NDS, a directory that's proven in Fortune 500 installations. NDS, a directory that'll get clobbered once Microsoft Active Directory begins to take hold.

    Novell needs to open-source NDS now, before it becomes irrelevant. IBM has the guts to do this, and the bucks to maintain the software as a loss leader to continue to sell services around it. If NDS is open sourced, it will become ubiquitous almost overnight, especially on Linux systems, where it will become the standard directory service. If they choose the GPL, even the Debian folks will adopt it. Imagine being able to write directory-aware applications for Linux, knowing that NDS will always be there.

    That's my $0.02, anyway. Personally I think the rumor is bogus.
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