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Well its a interesting analysis
We are Novell partners and are very impressed with the new products Xen and AppArmor. I agree with the analysis they do not have a problem with products and innovations but with marketing. They/We are getting killed in marketing.
As a small business what we have encountered are people and businesses spouting the M$-BS about how Linux is "only for techies" "too hard and not user friendly" "you have to do things from the command prompt and not a gui" and "there are no applications that run on it, only windows" and our very favorite, "its really cheaper to just use windows".
We must see 10 M$ commercials a week, I cannot remember the last time I have seen a linux advertisement of any kind from any distro. We have great hopes that in the future Novell will more readily realize the power of consistant agressive marketing, especially in a mature market like the US.
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Posted by: hoiatl   Posted on: 07/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Well its a interesting analysis  hoiatl | 07/14/06
Your experience mirrors mine, hoiatl.  OButterball | 07/15/06
SLES & SLED  Tim Patterson | 07/14/06
They need to start by dropping the SUSE name and colors, at least here in  DonnieBoy | 07/15/06
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