On Thursday 10 November 2005 01:11 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
I was just talking to a few co-workers about this today. I had hoped Novell would've gotten their proverbial act together and learned the lessons after they royally fscked up with Netware - going from a fantastic product (3.x) with 80% market share to a horrid series of failures (4.x/5.x) and losing 75% of that market share to the technologically inferior NT.
What Novell didn't have, that NT had was UI. NT provided enough functionality that the ease of use became the entire issue.
My prediction is that they'll sell SuSE to some operating system vendor who will then buy it up and eventually sue IBM and all other players for trademark and copyright infringement as their revenue model.
Just watch!
I can't imagine Novell got anything tangible out of the accusion other than, perhaps, some contracts. As for the most valuable resource at SuSE, they seem to be in a hurry to get rid of them. I'm real not happy about this situation. I am holding a whole lot back. Steven