Re: [SLE] ...and speaking of SuSE / Novell...

From: Steven T. Hatton (hattons_at_globalsymmetry.com)
Date: 11/14/05

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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:21:35 -0500

    On Sunday 13 November 2005 09:52 pm, John Boyle wrote:

    > To Sle and John Andersen: You have hit the nail on the head! Unless we
    > yell at them, Novell will decimate Suse desktop as soon as they can!
    > Again, I refer to what they did to WordPerfect, and that until Corel
    > stepped in , it was on its way out altogether!!

    That is exactly why Microsoft took virtually all Novell's business in a matter
    of about a year. Mircosoft treated a server as a software component, not an
    OS. They used what is called Client/Server architecture, where client
    components request services from server components. On their so-called
    "server" OS, they provided the same desktop that is available for their
    traditional end user OS. Anybody who believes they can compete with
    Micorsoft and not provide a usable, familiar desktop should get out of the
    software business today.

    What needs to happen is that we need to convince people that Linux desktops
    are usable. There are many problems with that. For one, people need to be
    able to interoperate with the established infrastructure. That means that
    they have to provide documents that MS Word can handle, and handle in such a
    way that these documents look professional in MS Word.

    Don't try to get the average secratary to try Linux. It's not ready for that
    kind of use. We need to get the technically able people to use it. College
    students, systems administrators, etc.

    Steven 

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