On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Tod Hansmann <[email protected]> wrote: > As for what Novell does, I haven't known that for a long time,
Me either. Here are the two things I *thought* they did. 1) Sell/support legacy Novell products. GroupWise, eDirectory -- is there anything else? 2) Sell/support the "alternative" Enterprise Linux brand. Specifically with .NET support. I can't imagine there is/was any growth opportunity in option #1. Option #2 seemed like the only viable plan for their future. The problem with option #2 is that Redhat is already very dominant, and they do a good job, so how do you differentiate and demonstrate your value? I thought that's where .NET and mono came in. If you were a .NET shop, and you wanted to bring in Linux, you probably would have gone with SLES and not RHEL. Now that the mono guys are gone, I'm not sure what they plan on doing to be viable in the future. Will Novell die? No. My prediction is that they'll just reduce down to be half the size they are now, and they'll become even more of a niche player. I hope I'm wrong though. -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
