Novell loses business to Microsoft and other companies

We recently showed how Microsoft is ’stealing’ from Novell’s GroupWise. Is this the company that Novell is serving in so many ways? Why? Has Novell forgotten the past so quickly? Examples from the news of Novell problems and loss of business to Microsoft.

Novell is losing its UK distributors and there is little hope for rebound based on the financial situation and general trend

I stumbled onto this blog post earlier today - from dkpw's Wikedfire - explaining how you can potentially install Novell's GroupWise on Ubuntu. Novell doesn't support GroupWise on Ubuntu. So, do dkpw's step-by-step directions work?

Novell’s GNU/Linux business may not be flourishing, but there are some deals and contracts which we ought to at least keep track of.

Lots of Novell news ranging from SCO and Netware to hardware and people. WHAT a week of pranks it must have been for Novell. Between rumours of an IBM takeover to similar ones involving Microsoft, Novell sure needed a sense of humour. Here is another joke about Novell bidding for Linus Torvalds.

Novell GroupWise is being abandoned and removed from over 70,000 seats

Novell's CTO Jeff Jaffe and Zonker (the symbol of OpenSUSE) say their last words before leaving Novell, replacements are imminent

Google and Microsoft eat Novell's lunch and nobody is offering to buy Novell despite its implicit invitation