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Novell Reports Financial Results

[Posted November 18, 2004 by cook]

Novell, Inc. has announced the financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and for 2004 to date. The company seems to be making money from its Linux efforts. "During the fourth fiscal quarter 2004, Novell recognized revenue of $12 million associated with its SUSE(R) LINUX business. Recognized revenue from subscriptions to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server in the quarter was $7 million, a sequential increase of 68% from the third fiscal quarter 2004. Sales of subscriptions to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) totaled 21,000 units in the quarter."

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Posted Nov 19, 2004 8:47 UTC (Fri) by steven97 (guest, #2702) [Link]

Messman hinted that another lawsuit against rival Sun Microsystems may also be on the horizon related to Sun's plans to make the next version of its operating system, Solaris 10, open-source and available for free. Messman noted that Solaris is "somewhat" built on Unix, which Novell owns.

(See this story from TheStreet.com).

Does anyone know more about that?