The NY Times reports that Novell is to sold to Attachmate for $2.2. This must raise concerns about the future of Suse, as Novell acquired that some time ago.
It’s strange how things work out in lkife. Novell was the premier networking giant in the 1980′s – the biggest competitior to Microsoft. owever, it’s fortunes declined after it bought StreeTalk and went to directory based authentication. Most people coundn’t handle it and went to NT4 as that was more like the bindery they were used to. However, Novell was rock sold – you never really needed to reboot the server.
But as it’s still around and used by some colleges in the West Midlands. With the Attachmate acquistiti0on, questions will beasked as to whether it will decline or will it signal the rennaissance of it?
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