analysis: inside the new novell
Written by jlgaddis on January 1, 2005 – 5:56 pm -By Neil McAllister, InfoWorld.
Without question, open source is one of the most important forces in enterprise IT. Apache is still the reigning champion of Web server software. Red Hat and MySQL are two of the most-watched software vendors today. And the success of Linux is such that even Microsoft, once considered the unstoppable juggernaut of the OS market, is being forced to play defense.
The open source model is often said to fly in the face of traditional commercial software development. But now Novell, the former undisputed leader in proprietary networking software, is banking on Linux and open source to rescue its business from years of decline. Where once it seemed fated for obscurity, Novell is determined to regain its former status by transforming itself into one of the industry’s leading open source vendors.
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