Comment Re:First p0st! (Score 1) 672
I saw a presentation at CA World by an employee of Novell (Think he was president of R&D IIRC, Nat was there too BTW). In the Novell presentation they stressed their focus on the use of their directory services and management tools on linux.
I think their acquisition of SuSE along with their recent purchase of Ximian puts them in the postion of selling their directory server along with SuSE email server and Ximians client to companies searching for an alternative to AD/Exchange.
IMO they have positioned themselves perfectly to dominate the Open Source desktop world. Novell has always had a very solid set of directory services (even though the old client was clunky as hell). Novell's name and their obvious touting of Open Source will surely be beneficial to the whole movement when corporate purchasers get tired of the endless amount of updates and expensive upgrade paths that Microsoft provides.
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Darren
I think their acquisition of SuSE along with their recent purchase of Ximian puts them in the postion of selling their directory server along with SuSE email server and Ximians client to companies searching for an alternative to AD/Exchange.
IMO they have positioned themselves perfectly to dominate the Open Source desktop world. Novell has always had a very solid set of directory services (even though the old client was clunky as hell). Novell's name and their obvious touting of Open Source will surely be beneficial to the whole movement when corporate purchasers get tired of the endless amount of updates and expensive upgrade paths that Microsoft provides.
Peace
Darren
