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I don't think that many Novell shops will bite
What this boils down to is an "off the mark" shot to slow down Linux; not really an attempt to gain Novell customers. They had plenty of opportunity to do that; but they waited too long and now Novell is pretty solid financially (actually they always were solid, but now the stock market also thinks so).

Microsoft, in my opinion, never respected Novell or their customers and took an attitude of "they will eventually have to switch to Microsoft at some point because they will have no choice". They were anticipating Novell's demise in the server NOS market because of seemingly changing to a consulting firm. But that turned out to not be the case and it was confirmed when they purchased Suse.

Now they offer "incentive" to move to Microsoft. But I think there will not be many takers since it is cheaper to stay with NetWare, and eventually Linux. The short term savings will not offset the long term expenses, even with staff retraining. People will take this into consideration and I think they will pass at the offer; unless there is some other compelling reasons to go with Microsoft.
Posted by: Physco Dude   Posted on: 11/16/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Why? Novell is superior  ITGuy04 | 11/16/04
If they had something to offer  htotten | 11/16/04
OOPS I forgot  htotten | 11/16/04
heheheh... you're right!  dragontiger | 11/16/04
So true  alterego_z | 11/16/04
I don't think that many Novell shops will bite  Physco Dude | 11/16/04
Laughing  Frank Rosseter | 12/16/04
Proves M$ cannot compete on merit  crocd | 11/16/04
So then why is Novell doing the same?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/16/04
Not a chance...  bmowrer@... | 11/16/04
What do you use..  crocd | 11/16/04
i'm guessing he uses netware with Zenworks  Monkey_MCSE | 11/16/04
Oh yeah  mtbandit@... | 11/16/04
What I use...  bmowrer@... | 11/18/04
Feeling threatened Billy boy?  Ratherbfishing465 | 11/16/04
talk about lies!  geek49203_z | 11/16/04
Goodies? Like razorbladed apples on Halloween?  Xunil_Sierutuf | 11/16/04
What's the problem?  dragontiger | 11/16/04
This is probably punative.  John L. Ries | 11/16/04
Oh great, now Novell will sue  FilledOut | 11/16/04
Novell offers free certification if you switch from Windows.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/16/04
It's a big differnce actually  voska | 11/16/04
Blah, blah, blah, it's all the same thing.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/16/04
They are the same..  AmusedAtItAll | 11/16/04
Trollcatcher...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 11/17/04
Hmmm, how about take your own advice.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/17/04
Hmmm....  bchesmer | 11/17/04
And why not???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/17/04
isn't this illegal dumping  hipparchus2000 | 11/16/04
Color me Linux  richdave | 11/16/04
exactly...  Monkey_MCSE | 11/16/04
(nt) . Just like a pusher on the street - the first 'hit' is FREE.  Plain Logic | 11/16/04
Free? You must be talking about open source.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/16/04
We already switched to MS once ...  netminder | 11/16/04
It's the old story...  Kamikaze_Ohka | 11/17/04

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