What PC?: What Next for Novell?

"What do you see as the main thrust of Novell's European operations going forward?

"Customers feel their infrastructure is too complex. We have three initiatives to tackle this.

"First, reduce the number of infrastructures--consolidation--which goes with clustering on mainframes and reducing the number of proprietary operating systems like HP-UX, AIX and Windows. We can now run [applications like] SAP on Linux, and there can be huge clusters on Linux. So there are now many more applications and it's a growth path..."

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