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novel drops unixware but regrets the move by adding LInux to its line
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| status@rtdos.info 2004-01-23, 5:08 pm |
| http://www.infoworld.com/article/03...44NNsuse_1.html
am i missing something here ? Didn't Novell get out of the Unix
business only to get back in (under Linux) ? Sounds like Novell
regrets selling Unix to SCO (or Caldera as the case may be).
i'll go back to lurking now.
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| S. Anthony Sequeira 2004-01-23, 5:08 pm |
| On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:20:09 +0000, Nicholas Bachmann penned:
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> status@rtdos.info wrote:
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> If you recall, Novell retained rights, i.e. they still (sort of) own Unix.
> So now they can dump a few choice Unix features into Linux, give it away,
> and sell their bread-and-butter NDS/Groupwise packages for less than a
> Microsoft solution (since you don't have an OS to pay for, instead of
> Netware or Winders) with enterprise-class features.
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> At least, that's my prediction. God knows a world without Netware will be
> a better one :-)
I'm sure that you are aware that they have also taken over Ximian yes?
And I agree about the world being a better place. Oracle on Netware was a
nightmare (to me anyway).
--
Tony
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| Scott Wertz 2004-01-23, 5:08 pm |
| S. Anthony Sequeira wrote:quote:
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> And I agree about the world being a better place. Oracle on Netware
> was a nightmare (to me anyway).
Oracle, SQL, Btrieve, Notes, whatever app....NetWare was never designed to
be an application platform - it was meant for file and print services.
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