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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.

12 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. I guess that *BSD isn't dying as well? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or is it shifting to linux too?

  2. I'm trying to right now ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Logging out..... Saving Settings.....

    Oh Give me a couple of hours here ....

    Waiting ........

  3. Re:Microsoft=shift_innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only if u succumb to the FUD

  4. You're In Utah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is called rule by press release. Execs jockeying for position make press releases with the clever little idea that once something is said in public, that the company will have to follow their political notions. I work in Utah. This is pretty much par for the course. I've seen entire products destroyed because a top exec planned a press release to destroy an enemy.

    It is just one of many reasons that Utah is generally battling Missippi for the lowest per capita income in the US.

  5. AAHAA federally recognized organization! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    commentation fault(shit dumped)

    Another score for the AAHAA! (The Anti Andrew Huard Association of America!)

  6. Re:Microsoft=shift_innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SQL server 200X is better than oracle/mysql (pathetic)/whatever.
    Yes, it is. Please, let us know what site you are running with SQL Server. Please tell me that you have credit cards on it. oh yeah baby. Well, you don't have to tell us. I can find out on my own, once you let me know who you are. Admit it people, Microsoft has crushed us.
    Crushed us??? you mean crushed you. Doing just fine here. Think I will stay down this path.

  7. BUT it's true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    96% of people use MS products.

  8. Re:Dividing resources without making more money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary numbers
    > and those who don't.

    Hmmm:
    00 -- person who doesn't understand binary
    10 -- person who understands binary
    01 -- ??
    11 -- ??

    I suspect YOU don't understand binary, you uneducated fuckwad!

  9. are YOU vladaquate? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ARE YOU VLADEQUATE?

    Do you hang out on IRC, chainsmoking, drinking scotch and bitching about other people not having a life?
    Do you think typing threats on your keyboard makes you a Martial Arts expert?
    Do you use the word "USIA" thinking it makes you sound clever?
    Do you spend an hour writing some long boring rant that says nothing but the exact opposite of what any sane person would believe and think that is clever?
    Do you make female accounts on blogs as an expression of your repressed gender-confusion?
    Has your girlfriend had a miscarriage due to smoking drugs?
    Does your wife weigh over 150lbs? 200lbs? 400lbs?
    Do YOU weigh over 200lbs? 400lbs? 800lbs?
    Do you find your aura of alcoholic stench repulses everyone around you, leaving you a bitter, uncreative drunkard on irc coming on to men pretending to be women?
    Do you believe the toor account on your *BSD box is a sign of a hacking attempt?

    If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, then the chances are good that you are VLADEQUATE! Please blow your brains out immediately and spare the world your boring, repetitive, drunken ramblings.

  10. Re:Dividing resources without making more money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who the fuck starts counting at zero? Besides, your nimbers aren't in order.

    00 in binary=0 in base 10 (the second 0 is redundant)
    01 in binary=1 in base 10 (the 0 in front of the 1 is extraneous)
    10 in binary=2 in base 10
    11 in binary=3 in base 10

    So the original post (wherever the hell you got it from, since I don't see this in the parent) is correct. It is you who is the uneducated fuckwad.

  11. Re:Dividing resources without making more money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fucking moron, I know the order is wrong. I wanted to count upwards in a way that was compatible with the "10 users in the world" statement. And given two bits, either of which is on or off, 00 IS a valid state, you stupid fuckwad. And I got the statement from the parent post. Moron.

  12. Why geeks are broke: by finallyHasANickname · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1995 resume excerpt:

    First Place in uncollaborative C programming contest (due to extra credit, keeping executable file smaller than 35 kilobytes), University of Virgin-cough-yeah

    Took out second mortgage, got Certified Netware Administrator standing (like millions of other clueless mouse jockeys)

    Read article in Wall Street Journal, felt scared, got MCSE (and put "training" on new credit card)

    Developed more stable drivers for network cards in The Kernel 1.2, failed to recognize wife immediately upon completion. (Sold what equity there was in house to pay lawyer.)

    Fast forward to 1999:

    Encountered violent rabble of drooling investor wannabes at door of fly-infested wife-free apartment... got accosted, kidnapped and thrown into a cubicle beside mountain of free soda of my choice... developed pr0n-and-bars-of-soap-through-UPS website, all coded in Visual Basic, according to plan of New Boss (which was generated by a Perl script found in Silicon Valley as developed and test-marketed for free by a post-IPO startup firm whose management team consisted of an anthropological student of venture capitalists' tastes and YACJ, i.e., yet another caffeine junkie with Ethernet cables running through every hallway and even into his bathroom). Put bandwidth on YACC (no, not that one--Yet Another Credit Card).
    Ok. So the May 2000 time of reckoning came, right? (shaking head)

    June 2001:

    Got layed off and cashed in stock options for a box of Fruit Loops, which (consumed of course without milk) wound up pretty tasty while watching the vintage pr0n from the with-bars-of-soap-through-UPS Dot Com days.

    Got YACC and got Linux certified from the following vendors: Dell, Red Hat, IBM, LinuxCare, SGI, SuSE, and TGIHHFL (that guy I haven't heard from lately), all for a few grand each.


    September 2003:

    Found nothing but Netware Administrator job openings.

    Discovered there was some kind of de facto expiration date on the old CNA cert.

    Realized that government was headed for Reagan 2.0 and looked in the private sector's yellow pages before making my choice, taking out YACC and checking myself into inpatient...