Novell To Cease NetWare Development?

Karl Cocknozzle writes "CNET News is reporting that Novell may discontinue NetWare following the purchase of Linux software company Ximian - for details on the purchase, see the recent Slashdot article. Novell plans to run its NetWare services - such as eDirectory and Secure Identity Management - on the Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions."

Comments

Jumpin' on the bandwagon

[millisa]

The company name 'Scovell' *does* have a certain ring to it.

Re:Already predicted

[Valar]

Wow. Way to double max out your moderation (and your karma)! Good going ;)

Re:Not what an employee told me

[Dri]

It use to be the other way around. Employees want open source software and management spell death.

Re:Let's Hope this Attitude Lasts

[WoTG]

Well, I'm sure for the right price, Novell would be willing to support just about anything. Doesn't stop them from effectively pushing everyone to upgrade...

Dear IT manager,

Renewing your current support contract for your Netware 5 licenses for 12 months will cost $1,000,000. Alternatively, you can upgrade to Netware 7 Linux for $25,000.

Please contact your sales associate when you are ready purchase your upgrade.

Sincerely,

Novell Licensing

Re:Frankly my dear

[minus9]

"The only place Netware is still installed is in already existing places,"

As opposed to non-existing places?

I hope Netware isn't dead, my 17000 users will be most annoyed if their data is gone. Wait here I'll go and check.

Re:Frankly my dear

[Nogami_Saeko]

For all of it's faults, I'd absolutely LOVE if we had Outlook installed at work...

That's how bad Lotus Notes is...

N.