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Novell Not Dumping Netware

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the still-going-strong dept.

jerel writes "eWeek describes how Novell will still develop and support NetWare. The eWeek article quotes Bruce Lowry, a top spokesman for Novell as saying, 'The bottom line is no. The whole thing with Linux is an additive thing. We're not dumping NetWare, we're adding Linux.' NetWare 7.0 will allow users to either upgrade to the latest version of the NetWare kernel or move to Linux." I guess this answers any lingering doubts going around.

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  1. Just the users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I guess it's just Novell users who are dumping NetWare, isn't it?

    1. Re:Just the users by Angry+Pixie · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, Novell's dumping NetWare... they just don't realize it yet. It's like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, he doesn't know he's dead.

  2. I can see their reasoning. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Novell exec #1: hrm. we're going well as a company, and all's stable. can we do anything to improve our lot?
    Novell exec #2: not really. everything we've planned is working out as it should and we're on track to continue that way
    Novell exec #1: damn. how about we put a bit more emphasis on linux, just to piss SCO off
    Novell exec #2: now you're talking!

  3. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Novell denies allegations that they ever were affiliated with Netware.

    "No, no no. You've got it all wrong. We're the ones with that .NET thing," spokesman Bob Randolph was quoted as saying late Thursday.

  4. But SCO said... by CB-in-Tokyo · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that when I bought their license for linux they were throwing in the IP for Netware for free!! Lying bastards!

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  6. Dear Netware, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought we talked about this.
    It's over, you're just too possessive.
    I hope we can stay good friends.

    Sincerely,
    Novell

  7. They aren't dumping netware? by rivaldufus · · Score: 1, Funny

    I just spent the last day replacing my netware servers with LANtastic!

  8. Whatever you say, Legacy -- I mean Novell, inc. by reverendslappy · · Score: 4, Funny



    Thanks so much to the company that has been so innovative in so many ways, yet is the same company to release quite possibly the most unstable and unreliable NOS client ever in the history of enterprise computing. Thanks for telling us that you're about to blow off what is quite possibly the best-equipped product to do the job you've been claiming to try to do for years while at the same time telling us you're going to continue to support a proprietary product that you're still struggling to really make work with the world's most popular desktop OS. Thanks for letting us know that you're not a forward-thinking organization and that you're not discarding your now-bordering-on-irrelevant past products in favor of the open source future. Thanks for shit-ifying your client to the point that we're forced to use AD. Thanks for 20% (NDS for NT) of my helpdesk calls. Thanks for giving me something other than mainframe to call "legacy". Thanks for being self-destructive, and for keeping me employed, you irrelevant, unimportant, ancient, ack-basswards thinking morons. Oh, and thanks for the inadvertent tip to sell the shares of your company I bought a few days ago.

    </drunken post>