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Novell: The Avis of Open Source?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2007

“Whenever The VAR Guy hears chatter about Novell, he thinks of
Avis–the Number 2 rental car company that proudly declares ‘We try
harder’ as it pursues the market leader (Hertz, er, Red Hat). Hmmm.
Is 2008 the year that all of Novell’s hard work in the open source
market finally pushes the company into the fast lane? UBS, the Wall
Street analyst firm seems to think so. But The VAR Guy isn’t so
sure.

“First, let’s start with the good news…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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