Novell Linux push fails to cover NetWare losses
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| The Waltham, Massachusetts-based software vendor's fourth quarter
| revenue was about $6m shy of analysts' estimates, which was never
| likely to keep Wall Street happy. Announcing that the company
| expected revenue to be "flat or near flat" at $945m to $975m in
| 2007 was the double-whammy that pushed the company's share price
| down to $5.70, its lowest price since March 2005.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=326EA359-CD54-4217-BF71-EDD6C134293F
* You know that companies are heading down when they join forced with
Microsoft.
* You know that companies evolve when they choose GNU/Linux (e.g. Google).
Also today:
Microsoft deal good for Linux - Novell SA chief
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| More Linux companies should look at striking a deal with Microsoft.
| This is the line from Novell SA country manager Stafford Masie who was
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| speaking at the CITI Foss Forum in Cape Town last week.
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| "This deal is not an exclusive arrangement with Microsoft. We are
| encouraging Redhat, Ubuntu and others to consider a similar agreement
| with Microsoft. We are encouraging them ... especially from a
| patent perspective," said Masie.
|
| "We encourage Shuttleworth and the folks to go and do what we've
| done. Investigate what we've done. Don't be fanatical about it
| but take a look at it," said Masie.
|
| Masie said that the free software community should "embrace
| Microsoft".
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1309
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