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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. Success stories? by Otter · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Those "success stories" in the sidebar are kind of grim to anyone who has been paying attention for a while.
    • Burlington Coat Factory (I'm sure I read about that on pre-account Slashdot)
    • Largo, FL (big fuss, years ago)
    • Munich (now held hostage to posturing over software patents)
    • Howard County Library (woohoo, a couple of web kiosks)
    • Mexico City (another one that goes back almost to Chips and Dips -- did it even happen in the end?)

    How about Extramadura? There are probably more Linux desktops in that operation than in this whole list. And we haven't been hearing about it since 1998.

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