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Tectonic: Novell’s Biggest Open Source Competitor: Apple

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 7, 2006

“A report by Gartner claims that Novell’s stiffest competition
for the small and medium business server space will come not from
Microsoft, but Apple.

“The report, entitled Apple vs Novell: an unlikely battle for
SMB open-source relevance, claims that companies looking for open
source alternatives to Microsoft are going to a better match with
Apple than Novell. ‘Novell will struggle to find a relevant product
offering for the SMB community,’ the report predicts, while ‘Apple
will be increasingly recognized as the open-source platform of
choice for the SMB community…'”

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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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