“It’s official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be
preceded by the adjective ‘beleaguered.’“The storied software company won a pass from such ominous
epithets for the last few years by buying open-source startups
Ximian and Suse Linux. It announced bold plans to embrace open
source starting in 2004. At the time Novell’s strategy was to
combine its NetWare operating system with Linux to compete with
Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system…”
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