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.

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Saving money

[Spodlink05]

They only took out two Microsoft licenses?

Exit strategy

[YodaToo]

Now if all of you just rush to buy shares of Novell, I can finally sell mine. Thanks in advance.

Beagle an Odd Name?

[Daredevil73]

Any one else think naming your premium feature the same as the worst virus for Windows perhaps not a great marketing move?

Ouch!

[Danuvius]

One of the biggest things about NLD 10 is that it will have the desktop search engine Beagle as a feature.

Microsoft does not stand a chance!!