[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“But then Microsoft Corp. came along and spoiled Novell’s party
in the mid-90s by releasing the Windows NT operating system,
competing with Novell’s NetWare product. Novell didn’t help matters
in making more than a few strategic mistakes.“Now, Novell is looking to Microsoft’s biggest enemy–the
open-source software movement–for renewal and profits. In its
latest strategic shift, Novell is focused on developing software
for the Linux operating system…”