____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 19 July 2007 14:52 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> City of Saint Paul, Minnesota - New Success Story for Novell
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The City of Saint Paul was running disparate e-mail platforms that required
>>| increasing IT administration as they often experienced downtime.
>>| Standardising on Novell GroupWise on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server created a
>>| unified e-mail platform across the organisation, reducing hardware costs by
>>| 75 percent and achieving 99.9 percent uptime.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.novell.com/success/saint_paul.html
>
> I wonder how long it will be before the word gets out that these free
> software email servers are far more reliable than the Microsoft ones?
It's all about perception. That's why "Get the Facts" BS is bleeding many
$millions.
>> Novell Hack Week: an experiment in innovation
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| According to legendary scientist Albert Einstein, "everything that is
>>| really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
>>| freedom." Perhaps that is why open-source software is such fertile ground
>>| for innovation.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Are there plans to do another Hack Week in the future? If Novell does
>>| another Hack Week, is there something that you would like to see done
>>| differently?
>>|
>>| Absolutely. We're looking at doing it again in 6 months or so. No date is
>>| set yet, but in the future we hope to involve more participants from the
>>| community.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/novell-hack-week-an-experiment-in-innovation.ars
>>
>> The community ought to just help Mark (or Debian, or Fedora...).
>>
>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-11/msg03765.html
>
> Agreed.
I've posted that thing we had talked about. Maybe you've seen it by this stage.
National Archives can't just abuse the system if the word is out there... it
can run, but it can't hide.
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