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Microsoft Claims 3.3 million NetWare Migration Win

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the working-the-numbers dept.

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.

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  1. Inflated by michaelhood · · Score: 0, Troll

    FTA: 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. Half of these users were probably running DOS-based NetWare, and were due for ANY kind of an upgrade; they took what was cheapest. This isn't news.

  2. Bill Gates... by Attis_The_Bunneh · · Score: 1, Troll

    GET A REAL JOB! ^__^ Sorry, but seriously, I find this sort of mental masturbation by MS and company to be silly. If they can't find a good point to promote their products then maybe I can steer clear of theirs. :) -- Bridget

  3. Re:Welcome to 2006! by sammy+baby · · Score: 0, Troll

    Okay. So, with iWork and Appleworks together, I get the equivalent of two word processors (counting Pages), two presentation programs (counting Keynote), and apparently a spreadsheet. I've also spent $158 list price, as opposed to $149.95 for Office 2004, Student and Teacher Edition.

    I also took a moment to peruse some of the reviews on the site. Most telling: "Compared to a similar version of Microsoft Works this program is lacking."

    Now that's just sad.

  4. migrations or sales? by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Troll

    1.8 million NetWare servers retired, or 1.8 million Wintel servers purchased? I could "retire" an MQ cluster here at work, if I was willing to replace 6 AIX LPARs with about 18 Windows machines....

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