"The popularity of OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite, will be key to the financial success of Novell, said company president and CEO, Ron Hovsepian, who hopes to be a 'custodian' between the open source community and the commercial world.
"OpenOffice is a direct competitor to Microsoft Office. 'The financial holy grail is actually the office productivity suite… when you look at structures of companies there is a lot of profitability in those product sets from the competition...'"
