Re: Novell to Release Quarterly Report Amidst Move to Linux

[John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:06:21 -0700, billwg wrote:

> > "During the third fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported $12 million of
> > revenue from Linux* Platform Products, up 30% year-over-year. Revenue
> > from Identity and Access Management was $26 million, up 46%
> > year-over-year. Combined revenue from Open Enterprise Server and
> > NetWare-related products declined 19% from the year ago period."
> >
> > 12 mil is only 5% of NOVL's nut and about 12 minutes worth of Mr.
> > Softee's Windows income stream.  Kind of a small potato, I think, but
> > ray will be thrilled by the growth rate.
>
>
> Looks like the catfish is out of the tank as far as Suse 10.1 being a bug
> riddled distribution is concerned.

Well gee, if Open Enterprise server is down.

And Linux sales are up.

That leaves desktop sales to account for the increase...mmm....