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Novell 'Drinking Their Own Champagne'

Posted by timothy on from the consider-the-source dept.

TheMMaster writes "According to Novell, they will be using their own flavour of Linux (SUSE) on the desktops of their 6000+ workers. While this was already known for quite some time, what wasn't quite so known was why and how they did it. Novell is moving from Microsoft to Linux and OpenOffice. Here's how it's being done."

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  1. Re:The MOVE by chbauer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. Its called Groupwise (http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/).

  2. Re:Success stories? by JabberWokky · · Score: 2, Informative
    Largo is happy with Linux and expanding its usage. Burlington Coat Factory is still Linux, I believe. So is... uhh... the tire company. I know because a month or so back, I shoulder surfed their system when I drove a friend to get new tires.

    Seems to me that people switch, are happy, and go back to their business. "Business has computers" isn't much of a story, the switch is.

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