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Story: Novell promises long-term NetWare support

I cannot believe that a publication such as this would cite a 2003 study. Perhaps, the publication or the writer receives special things from Microsoft to add little sentences like this to an otherwise VERY positive article on Novell, OES, GroupWise and such.

Novell has supported its products far longer than Microsoft. It takes a $35 million dollar tax-payer funded check from the U.S. Army to get Microsoft to continue support for its NT4 server that is in use all over the globe, mainly because the political structure of the DoD won't make any decisions to upgrade, migrate or replace servers.

The Army and the DoD would do much better to dismiss its plans to use Exchange and AD and look seriously at OES, GroupWise and eDirectory/Identity Management. But then, they can't because someone might have to make a decision to abandon well over a $billion$ in money spent on paper and pencil-level planning projects.

Novell and its Linux Desktop along with GroupWise, eDirectory, OES, ZENworks, etc. will re-capture the market it had before we were fed the lies and FUD by Microsoft. I'm betting that nearly 30% of the worlds desktops will be some flavor of Linux before the elusive "Longhorn" release comes out in 200?

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