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Novell Dumps the Hula Project

Posted by kdawson on from the wonder-why? dept.

asv108 writes, "On the Hula general mailing list today, it was announced that Novell is no longer providing full-time developers to Hula. While the project will continue, it appears that Novell is not committed to developing a viable open-source alternative to MS Exchange. The Hula project was announced in February 2005 with much fanfare."

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  1. Re:That's Novell for you. by Oliver+Defacszio · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As a company, they should be doing everything they can to port their profitable apps to the major platforms out there.

    They are. Let's count:

    1) Windows

    Wait, I'm not sure if I got that right; let's count again.

    1) Windows

    "But wait," you mewl, "Linux is much, much, much, much better than Windows! Can't it play too?" Linux is popular to three groups of people:

    1) Those with a political ax to grind
    2) Those with no money to run with professionally developed and supported alternatives
    3) Those who wish to create an identity solely by being different for the sake of being different

    And that does not a "major platform" make. Slashdot ain't the real world, Buddyroo.

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