Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 05:55 GMT
Just start to get somewhere with something just about decent and they fuck it all up.
Same old Novell, if they would just invest in their software and stop chasing the fad they could really make an impact on IT.
Oh and we are a Novell shop. `hangs head in shame`
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 10:39 GMT
http://www.sco.com/partners/news/0901/200901.html
Winter 2009
Dear SCO Customers and Partners,
Blah. Blah. Blah.
Best regards,
Jeff Hunsaker
President & Chief Operating Officer
SCO Operations
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 10:39 GMT
..others are laying off too - Microsoft are and it acts as a barometer for the whole industry. Novell are notoriously coy on the number of folks they lay off, but a number of European offices were closed at the back end of last summer. I suppose if they were next to useless, no-one will miss them (the offices, I mean).
There is still a huge schism between the Provo bunch and the Waltham bunch that's yet to be addressed. If Novell could cure the left hand-right hand syndrome they've got, they'd look pretty good (and I speak from a partner perspective). That's not even counting the drivel coming out of India...(ZCM anyone?)
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 10:39 GMT
for i in $( cat employee_list ) ; do rug service-remove $i ; done
Credit cruch sucks arse.
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 10:39 GMT
More typical of Novell is that they actually invest in their products quite adequately but fail on a grand scale when marketing them.
Netware - brilliant
NDS - gives sliced bread a run for its money.
but we never see them, never hear about them.
Yes the Wordperfect thing was a fiasco, but I suspect it only hastened what was going to happen anyway. *nix is a better app server, netware a better file/network server but windows has made huge in-roads into both areas by looking like the default client desktop.
Novell's marketing is still awful after all these years: "Access Manager", "Compliance Manager", "iManager" are all listed under "Products A-Z." I was bored before I got anywhere near them, despite the fact I suspect they are rather good pieces of software.
They need to get some decent marketers and put their product and message out there (flash demo, trial VM or whatever) so people can quickly grasp why they should go to Novell rather than relying on AD or work their way through openldap.
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 11:43 GMT
I'll break out the champagne if the cuts include all the perpetrators of Groupwise: at work, I have the misfortune to have my email mangled by that abomination, all because some of my colleagues were dazzled by the claim to have read receipts (which do work - *most* of the time) and a third-rate integrated calendar which apparently somebody uses somewhere on campus. That product just cannot die soon enough!
The trouble for them is that they were a single-product company: Netware - the product they've virtually abandoned to go off and become yet another Linux distro. Whoops.
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 17:13 GMT
"NetWare was the network operating system standard that predated - and was outsold by - Microsoft's Windows NT"
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