On Thursday 05 March 2009 09:08:14 am Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
on 03/05/2009 03:51 PM Rajko M. wrote:
Sincerely, behind 10.1 fiasco was the very same thing that prevents Novell to adjust to changes today, massive and somewhat crusty corporate structure that resists (hate) any change.
I'm sorry but what the heck are you talking about? Tell me one concrete example of your theory.
10.1 is not an example of a crusty corporate structure that hates change. Its an example of a wrong decision taken for all the wrong reasons and learning from it.
Really :-) Few individuals, not influenced by environment, brought wrong decision, but learned from consequences, end of story. Romantic picture that I haven't seen except in movies. The real work place where boss can send you home, his boss can send him home, and so on, employees will write what is expected to be written in reports, with as little as possible annoyance for superiors, and there is small chance that decision maker, few floors upper, will ever get real picture. That is exactly the same communication problem in any company and it gets worse with the time. The only way to make guys on upper floors aware of problems is when customers/users cry laud, or they order a survey.
We keep talking about this group of people that calls itself Novell as if it is a Person. Novell is Michael Matz and Petr Uzel. Its AJ, Adrian Miguel, Stefan Dirsch and Ron Hovsepian. Its me and the cleaning lady. If you think that someone is crusty and hates change then tell them. Or tell me so i can de-crust them. But putting everyone in a sack and beat on it is simply wrong.
Corporations spend quite some effort to create corporate identity, and now you complain on success :-) Problem is that large entity is sum of components. What any one of you want can come out completely different when summed up. It is fact of life. And, about decrusting, I can see some, otherwise I wouldn't care to comment, but there is still to strong focus on enterprise. *** The main problem is that Novell has no product for small business and personal use. Many would go around and try to sell software, but offer is SLED or openSUSE. First expensive, second far from professional. There is nothing in between. Last time, when I did installation, it took me 4 hours with reasonably fast DSL. The 11.0 was installed in lesser than hour, the rest was updates, multimedia setup, and few words how to use. I don't know many people that are so patient. You can imagine what problem is when computer refuse to boot after kernel update, or graphic driver is not ready when kernel is, or any of many other problems. I have to be ready and fix the problem instantly, because I convinced person to use the Linux. Not to mention that such problems defeat main argument to switch, to have computer without problems.
Henne
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