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Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch
An anonymous reader submits "Computer World has an article about Novell Linux Desktop 10, which was just announced at Brainshare, that it plans to compete directly with Windows. One of the biggest things about NLD 10 is that it will have the desktop search engine Beagle as a feature." Also from Brainshare, Joe Barr writes on NewsForge about the significance of Novell's ongoing (multi-year) transition to Linux for all of its 6,000 desktops. Consultants and software sellers of all stripes won't soon run out of TCO arguments for the products they want to push, but Novell claims to have saved $900,000 last year in Microsoft license fees alone.
... and this is flamebait how?
No corporation is going to trust their desktop to an FTP'd version. They're going to buy official licenses so that they get official support.
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On Windows, Office and MS SQL licensing and support fees. Now for someone from the outside, who Novell will charge through the nose by the hour for support, I bet "savings" will be a lot less substantial.
Yes i was joking except the bit about NT 3.1 being crap.
I forgot (for some reason) that it was the mid-90's and NT was actually quite good.