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Microsoft Claims 3.3 million NetWare Migration Win
Anonymous Coward writes "For the second year in a row, Microsoft has waited for Novell's annual BrainShare show to start before claiming a huge customer migration win off NetWare and onto Windows. According to this article Microsoft says that there were more than 1.8 million successful commercial sector migrations in 2005 alone, and a total of 3.3 million customers migrated over the past two years. It has also launched a new program to lure customers in the education and state and local government sectors off NetWare and onto Windows." Novell's comments are enlightening about where they see themselves within the market.
This really illustrates how greedy Microsoft is. NetWare specializes in one little segment of the market. It's not enough that MS's crappy OS is on most of the computers around the world, they have to infect the market segment that Novell is currently parasitising.
It not only shows how greedy they are, but also how they are just plain bullies. Timing these claims the way they did is just dirty. I know this is just business, but the claim is hard to justify:
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running.
Does this sig remind you of Agatha Christie?
Our company is on its way of moving out all our Netware servers and moving to a completely MS based environment. Sad to see us go that way. I have said my piece over and over but to no avail. Now all I can still fight for is Oracle on Unix vs MS SQL. We ever go that way I am going to have to update my resume. Our computer room is a nightmare with a bazallion Dell servers all running MS something or other...
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
Note a related story at The Register: "Novell puts Netware on life support until 2015" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/21/novell_bra inshare/
Your strange little editorial on what the article says:
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005," but he was unable to immediately provide eWEEK with information on whether these numbers represented individual customers or total users or what versions of NetWare they were running.
What the article actually says in case anyone is interested.
Asked where Microsoft had gotten those specific numbers, Gavin said they represented the number of "successful migrations completed in partnership with Quest Software in 2005." The figures also reflect the number of users rather than individual commercial migrations, and reflect migrations off Netware versions 4, 5 and 6 with Novell directory services 4, 5 and 8.
Sheesh! Directly after you stope your quote they specifically say exactly what you say they don't say. And it gets modded up?!?!?!?
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wow.. not even trolling. thats what the article originally said.. my original comment should be modded down since its no longer accurate, but when the article was posted thats what it said.. the part you bolded was a direct copy and paste. beware eweek. =\