[olug] Linux, Networks and NFS/NIS

[Bob McCoy]

"Novell reported a net loss of $28.6 million on sales of $276 million
for the quarter that ended April 30."

"Novell stock, which hit a high of $43.60 a share in February 2001, has
dropped to little more than $3 as investors lose confidence."

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/06/06
/build/business/32-novell.inc

"Novell, which competes with International Business Machines Corp.,
Microsoft Corp.  and Sun Microsystems Inc., also said in its SEC filing
that as previously disclosed it would not provide specific revenue
forecasts for the remainder of fiscal year 2003 or future periods."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2937526

>Don't buy into the FUD that Novell is a company in 
>trouble and that they aren't going to [be] around much 
>longer, Novell's revenue's and customer base is growing 
>even if the installed base of Netware servers is static.  
>Plus they are a much more Linux/cross-platform friendly 
>company.

Novell's largest profit this quarter will come from selling $120M worth
of their office space in Silicon Valley.  I'm sorry, but tht sounds like
a company in trouble to me.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Bill Brush
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:11 PM
To: Mac at PetrasWeb.com; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Linux, Networks and NFS/NIS



JMO, but you'd be better off sending someone to some Novell training
than migrating to W2K services.  We have both Novell and W2K/NT here and
our incidents of debilitating problems on the Novell servers is almost
zero, compared to the W2K patch of the week club.

Don't buy into the FUD that Novell is a company in trouble and that they
aren't going to around much longer, Novell's revenue's and customer base
is growing even if the installed base of Netware servers is static.
Plus they are a much more Linux/cross-platform friendly company.

I would urge you to take a close look at what Novell offers for new
technology before you dump your existing infrastructure.  Netware is
nothing if not stable and secure.

Bill




 

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>Well...yeah, I know that. I was trying to be....."nice".  Really prefer

>not to call my folks "scared little puppies" or tell them to "get a 
>clue" - LOL. In her case - it's a lot of unfamiliar territory, and the 
>fact that we're looking at migrating all the Novell services out and 
>replacing with either Win2k or Linux services (it's a supportability 
>thing at the least - she's our only Novell person).  So that's where I 
>think some of the FUD comes from....and why I'm being patient/nice 
>about it.....




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