Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Trifle Menot <triflemenot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:00:13 -0500, Alberto Passalacqua
<albert.passalacqua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Did you read the last financial reports of Novell regarding the growth
> of their Linux business?

> For the chronicles, in 2008 they had 29.8%
> (http://www.novell.com/company/blogs/cmo/?p=207) of market share
> (about half of RH). It's hard to say that with about 30% of the market
> share you are "failing" at it.

Enterprise market is one thing, total market is another.  Without strong
grassroots support, their enterprise market share will shrink.

Why do you think they put Novell on the auction block?  If executive
management was optimistic about Novell's potential to gain significant
market share, why would they do that?

After Novell lost the networking market to Microsoft, the public viewed
Novell as a "loser."  And that reputation dogs them to this day.

To the credit of executive management, they seem to understand that. The
best thing they can do for their shareholders is sell out, and let a new
name take over.



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