NewsForge: Novell Walking the Walk of a True Linux Company

"I had an abbreviated schedule here on Day 4 as the main phase of Brainshare 2005 drew to a close. BrainShare will continue Thursday and Friday, but the press and the outside vendors will be gone. It'll be quality time for Novell and its customers. So I'll use the occasion to provide a wrap-up of the conference rather than another daily summary.

"I struck up a conversation with yet another Novell customer at breakfast this morning. He was thrilled with the company's move to Linux and commented: 'I think Microsoft should really begin to worry about Linux with Novell behind it.' I told him about the truck I had seen towing the MS billboard around the Salt Palace earlier in the week, and he laughed, saying, 'That truck driver better not get too close to this crowd...'"

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