%uFEFFA little late to the party but in Novell years.%uFEFFwho's counting.I'm forever 24 anyway.Ĭlient was buggy under TCP/IP, Servers were solid. Many an indignant resignation followed Dilbert administrators over-rulling their IT chiefs to go with Microsoft.Īnd so now, Ray Nadella wants us to understand Microsoft has a new focus? In fact, faced with a decision to stay with Novell or drop everything for Microsoft, those who did the actual product comparison found many favorable points for Novell- yet often made the decision on anything but product merit. Microsoft seemed to understand product merit reviews put it at a relative disadvantage, and avoided such discussions whenever possible. There are stories that are still told, by the light of a campfire.Which would account for Novell's show market decline, especially since Novell- as a product- was seldom in a contest with Microsoft over actual product merit. If there is one thing Microsoft did effectively (if not with integrity), it was what it called "marketing".
Yes, Novell was in the path of another corporation which had no qualms about its tactics, or how it acquired new business. If Novell had a signature fault, the corporation put most of its resources into product engineering, and found no money left over for little things like marketing battles with Microsoft.
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Thanks for one of the few balanced and judicious assessments of a solid, very capable product, written by one who has used it instead of merely having read over somebody's movie review.
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