Just made the 'Microsoft out-innovated Novell' statement to one of our older networking guys...Surprisingly enough his reaction was not (his usual) calm and considered opinion...
Still it was nice to see a normally composed and unexcitable fellow self combust on the spot...
Netware have been sitting in the sidelines in the UK for far to long (not sure what its like in the US), but by associating themselves with Linux and the general Opensource movement, they will probably be considered for networking backbone stuff once again instead of people going with the almost defacto decision of Microsoft.
The likes of Dell and Gateway are going to eventually come aboard, otherwise they are going to be left behind. A tech company that doesn't take Linux and OpenOffice.org seriously enough will eventually end up being a dead company (or at least one which is paying through the nose for its productivity tools).
The sooner Linux makes it to the desktops of the average user, the better.
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Just made the 'Microsoft out-innovated Novell' statement to one of our older networking guys...Surprisingly enough his reaction was not (his usual) calm and considered opinion...
Still it was nice to see a normally composed and unexcitable fellow self combust on the spot...
Netware have been sitting in the sidelines in the UK for far to long (not sure what its like in the US), but by associating themselves with Linux and the general Opensource movement, they will probably be considered for networking backbone stuff once again instead of people going with the almost defacto decision of Microsoft.
The likes of Dell and Gateway are going to eventually come aboard, otherwise they are going to be left behind. A tech company that doesn't take Linux and OpenOffice.org seriously enough will eventually end up being a dead company (or at least one which is paying through the nose for its productivity tools).
The sooner Linux makes it to the desktops of the average user, the better.