Linux Growth Doesn't Offset NetWare Decline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 7, 2006 @05:26PM 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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The real problem by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-07 17:51 · Score: 0, Troll

The biggest issue facing Novell right now is that existing NetWare customers find Linux a real step backwards - particularly in the area of Directory Servies. Open Enterprise server is currently a half-baked attempt to address these issues. Right now the existing NetWare base have been told they have to move so most of them are moving to Windows and Active Directory.