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Novell's Race Against Time

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the in-the-backstretch dept.

DiamondGeezer writes "The Guardian newspaper in the UK reports in 'It's a race against time' that Novell is on a knife-edge financially and competitively, having placed a huge one-way bet in the success of its Linux strategy. But there's no guarantee of success: its revenue from Linux licensing is puny, and it faces a crowded market of Linux distros. Novell may be getting some positive press now that it's gone full tilt for Linux, but let's remember the reasons why: because of mis-steps of its previous management (especially the disastrous acquisition of WordPerfect in the mid 1990s) and its failure to grow its Netware business (with more than a little help from Microsoft), it's now having to re-engineer itself for Linux."

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  1. h4x by floridagators1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:h4x by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      Interesting that shit that splatters ends up looking like a post by floridagators1.

  2. April Fools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's not so funny.

  3. THIS JUST IN!!!! It's been discovered P=NP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok, that wasn't the best April Fool's Day joke. Mod me down if you wish.

  4. In other news.. Charlotte Church by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google news shows over 30 links to news articles around Europe (and 1 so far in the US) to information about Charlotte Church, a topless photo, and a mistake involving said photo being texed to hundreds of people. You would think these celebrities would've learned from Paris Hilton's phone incident. Here's a scan from one news article in the UK: "Diva in topless phone pic"