MozillaQuest: Deja Novell All Over Again Feb 10, 2004, 04 :00 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (5409 reads) (Other stories by Mike Angelo)
"In the 1990s Novell had acquired two operating systems, Unix and DR DOS, and two PC, office/productivity applications, WordPerfect and QuatroPro. It seemed that Novell had what it needed to have in order to take Microsoft head-on. Then Novell sold all that and focused on its networking software business.
"Thus until a few weeks ago, Novell had been known as an enterprise, networking-software company. However, last year, Novell got serious about porting its products to the GNU-Linux operating system. Mid-summer, Novell joined in the SCO v Linux fracas--on the side of the Linux community and against SCO..."