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Story: Novell's Linux strategy causes customers concern

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I hope that they do end support for NetWare, the same way that Microsoft has ended support for Windows NT 4.0. Since there is a viable open-source alternative to NetWare (and Windows, and Solaris, etc.), and since Novell's putting these same services on GNU/Linux, there's little, if any, excuse for "NetWare shops" to stick with NetWare.

When you base your business's infrastructure on having to depend on a vendor's largess, and do not insist on vendor-neutral solutions, then you're putting yourself at exactly the risk that the "NetWare shops" are describing right now. With something that's open source, like GNU/Linux, you can get your updates from www.kernel.org or anywhere else. On the groupware side, Openexchange Server and Evolution, now being fully open source, it's the same thing.

Consider basing your IT infrastructure on something that *anybody* is legally permitted to modify, not just one vendor. This is a lot of why I converted from Windows NT to GNU/Linux several years ago.

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