Re:*Cringe* (Score 1)

If you really want to know why Novell latched on to Linux then you just need to pay attention to what Chris Stone (Vice Chairman of the office of CEO and primary person behind the open source moves) has said about it. Basically, he blames the decline in NetWare to the fact that nobody except Novell write software for NetWare because it is such a bad development environment. Switching to Linux gave them a platform that developers will happily code for and it also gets rid of the dreaded "Legacy" label that has been haunting them for several years. The scary thing is that Stone, just today announced that he is leaving Novell for "other pursuits" http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3 431541, and based on previous ignorant statements by Jack Messman (Chairman and CEO), I'm not sure that anyone else in upper management at Novell really "gets it".