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Linux Growth Doesn't Offset NetWare Decline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slippery-stockholder-slope dept.

steveit_is writes to tell us CommentWire is reporting that the decline in NetWare and Open Enterprise sales is plummeting at a much faster rate than their SUSE Linux sales are growing. It seems that the transition is proving to be every bit as difficult as Novell execs originally suspected. From the article: "When Novell last week announced its financial results for the fiscal first quarter ended January 31, the said that growth in its SUSE Linux and related products was decent, but that sales of its NetWare and Open Enterprise Server--a variant of NetWare that uses Linux as the operating system kernel that was announced last year--declined by 11%."

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  1. gfdsty54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you are not willing to learn,then stay with the windows garbage.

  2. Linux = failure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It seems like it's open season on Linux by Solaris 10. Well, Linux 2.6 being on par with Windows NT 4.0 in terms of features and stability, we can say it's had a pretty good run. However, now it's time to move over for something better.