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Novell's Messman Aims To Fuel Linux (CRN)
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Novell CEO Jack Messman. "[Red Hat] had a six- to eight-year head
start, and they've got the brand name and attacked a piece of the market
that was ready for Linux: edge servers and small-business customers. But
the Linux market is moving toward us in the enterprise, where we have
strengths. It's a leapfrog strategy. We'll leapfrog Red Hat in the data
center and consolidate backward. Red Hat is not the ultimate enemy,
competitively. It's Microsoft."
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Novell's Messman Aims To Fuel Linux (CRN) Posted Mar 22, 2006 22:24 UTC (Wed) by maxhrk (guest, #36278) [Link] It will be interesting to see how fare Novell can do against their declared-enemy Microsoft.
Novell's Messman Aims To Fuel Linux (CRN) Posted Mar 23, 2006 10:13 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] haha. Somebody needs to do it.
Novell certainly has the technological means and they have the connections and respect all over business and government circles.. To bad their marketting sucked.
Like for example: People go on about 'enterprise desktop' is only realy possible with the capabilities that Microsoft's Active Directory can provide. There realy isn't any equivelent in Linux that is as easy to use.
But Active Directory stuff is realy Novell's creation and they created a item that is superior to AD years ahead of Microsoft. They are the ones that figured how to make it work.
Of course Novell quickly found out it's impossible to compete with a aggressive Microsoft when Microsoft controlled the only viable platform for Novell's software! So Novell has to make Linux a viable platform or they are screwed.
It's sink or swim time for Novell and Linux-on-the-desktop.
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