> Was Novel responsible for the headlong retreat that Corel and WordPerfect > suffered?
Actually, from reading some of the post on /. someone offered an interesting view on the Novell/WordPerfect fiasco. It was suggested that Novell didn't want the WordPerfect part anyway. They just wanted the Groupwise part. They(Whoever had it before Novell) didn't want to sell just Groupwise, so Novell bought the whole thing then just sold off the stuff they didn't want. My view is that the Novell that bought and messed up all those other softwares, is not the same Novell that's there today. So hopefully things will turn out positively for all those involved with the Ximian purchase. However, Novell is in the business of making money, so it's likely they made the decision because they wanted one piece of the Ximian company, then they'll dump the rest. But from this purchase they do get a lot of talented developers. That will help any company a lot i think. BB
