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Novell Completes Sale
symbolset writes "Today Novell completed its sale to Attachmate. The company will be a wholly owned subsidiary and be delisted from the stock exchange. Novell was once a dominant player in network software, and its passing signals the end of an era."
UNLOAD NOVELL.NLM
System halted Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30:00 pm EDT
Abend: Page Fault Processor Exception (Error code 00000002)
OS version: Novell NetWare 4.10 November 8, 1994
Running Process: SCRSAVER.NLM
Stack: AC 1F 65 01 E7 66 03 F1 50 CA 65 01 03 00 00 00
D0 1F 65 01 09 00 00 00 B0 81 01 F9 54 CE 65 01
39 67 03 F1 0B CB 65 01 B4 D0 65 01 B0 81 01 F9
Press "Y" to copy diagnostic image to disk.
Otherwise press "X" to exit.
Just another example of innovate or die. They had a HUGE place in business servers years ago, and then they just sat down on their laurels, and never stood back up.
No, their prices were being undercut by Microsoft, which had independent revenue stream in the form of MsOffice and Windows. It is impossible for any company to fight this in their own turf. Microsoft will simply wait for you to run out of cash and then sweep in and peck on the carcass.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
will meet you all here again when its Nokias turn
I recently got called in by a client to "help out a relative with their server". A smallish family business at least three generations deep (selling and maintaining farm equipment). When I arrived I was greeted with a lot of questions - about if I could possibly help them move their office to a smaller space down the road. They were very concerned about their server, because a bigger local consulting company had told them it would cost $4000 to move it to a new office.
I took a look, and found a pristine (c) 1992 DEC server (x86) running Netware 3.1 with two software mirrored SCSI drives. 10-base-T, and an old "concentrator". Heheh...
Workstations were IBM PCs (the old style) with Novell ethernet network cards.
I backed up their entire server (SYS vol and DATA vol) to my FLASH DRIVE. Did some testing offline to be sure their (c)1994 accounting software could be made to run independently of the server if needed, and moved their stuff the next weekend. The server had been up for 2664 days. Uneventful move. Server is still up. We plan to replace it with a small SAN sometime this summer. That thing had been running 24/7 with only a few reboots due to power loss since 1992. This just happened a month or two ago. (And no, no one had ever applied the Y2K fixes to it...)
Crazy reliable.