Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian: 'There Has to Be a Better Way'

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"While Linux has come a long way in the past 10 years, I think it's safe to say that it hasn't yet taken over the world--nor has Linux reached its full potential. Linux continues to become more mainstream every day--we now see Linux hosting mission-critical servers in the enterprise, large financial banks run their financial trading applications on Linux, Linux is even running manufacturing operations, and Linux is beginning to emerge as a serious player on the desktop from engineering workstations to consumer desktops to business desktops.

"But now, Linux as an industry is at a tipping point. Linux has achieved some of the promise that it started out with 20 years ago, but we are not there yet..."

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