On 1/4/06, Jan van Kollenburg
2006/1/4, Clint Tinsley
: Footnote to all this. I just logged into my SuSE 10 box and realized that Novell is not even on the login screen and it is only shown as a "A Novell Business" on the default wallpaper. And you all know what Novell did to WordPerfect after it bought it, took what it wanted (groupwise), and sold off what was left to Corel.
That will NOT happen this time, because: - Novell has announced to not make Netware suitable anymore for the 64 bit processors, but only as a virtual machine on SUSE. - Thereby SUSE becomes the core of the Novell business.
You might say that this time Novell is dropping Netware. They are certainly not dropping SUSE. SUSE has become the successor of Netware.
I don't think it could be any more clear. Netware is effectively dead. Nobody inside Novell (except a sales rep that senses commision) wants to talk about "netware" ever. Some do still wish (as do I) that the core "NCP" services were going to continue, and that is what OES (linux) is about. Time will tell whether this will gain any legs. Personally, I think that netware and NSS and NCP should be open sourced as legacy .... THEN we would see more and more places hanging on to or even newly adopting some of this technology. SUSE it is, going forward. Peter