Saturday, November 25th, 2006, 5:01 pm
Novell Loses Business
Filed under: While the impact of the petition may be nothing but words and promises, we also observe action being taken.
Professor Keats shared the mail with the South African anti-software patent mailing list, and gave permission to share it further.
Dear Stafford,
This is a personal email from me, not an official policy of UWC. However, as the custodian of IT at UWC, I will be pursuing a full investigation into a total exit strategy for all Novell products from the University of the Western Cape.
As a non-trivial CUSTOMER of Novell, we will be looking at all our Novell applications during the next 3-4 months, with a view to finding the fastest possible way to get ALL NOVELL PRODUCTS completely out of our environment. As a company that we have been customers of for over a decade, Novell has let us down badly, and as customers, you may expect us to vote with our feet and encourage others within the education domain to do the same.
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November 26th, 2006 at 11:39 am
This was quite dramatic reading. I hadn’t realised that Novell – who I do admire – were falling behind Open Source developments in such a big way.