Re: Novell buys Ximian

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

Uh, remember WordPerfect?

--- john doe <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I second.  This is a very good thing IMO and I tip my hat in their 
> direction.
> 
> linux could be the definate ms killer with nds and as bob suggests, an 
> outlook/exchange killer
> 
> Im sure my expirences with novell are different than other peoples, but any 
> novell server i have been involved with has always just worked for years and 
> years without issue unless there was a hardware problem.  the machines with 
> the longest uptimes that i have seen in person have all been netware boxes 
> hitting the 4+ yr mark. (i have no experience with linux boxes having > 1yr 
> uptime, i know they exist i have just never seen one in RL that i was aware 
> of)
> 
> i look forward to good things stemming out from this aquisition
> 
> Casey
> 
> 
> >
> >let me just stick my neck out and say that I for one think this is a good 
> >thing, the novell of today
> >is certainly not the one that sold off the unix code, this is the novell 
> >thats been beaten by M$ not the
> >one thats fighting for market share, this novell has had to completely 
> >retool and rethink the way that
> >it does business and what exactly that it does (i.e. no more "real" 
> >netware), i believe they are more
> >concerned with becoming the creative fresh thinking company than ever 
> >before, if they can tie in NDS and
> >port over the zen tools for handling massive networks of linux boxes with 
> >ease then i'm all for it, if
> >they can put thier two cents in on the server side of evolution (groupwise 
> >with a twist) and make
> >evolution the outlook killer we all know it is then i'm all for it, IMHO 
> >Novell is one of the more
> >respectable companies in the industry and have had many really good ideas, 
> >give em a chance, remember they
> >got beat because microsoft (thier competetor) controlled the client 
> >platform
> >
> >Bob T. Kat
> >
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