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What PC?: Novell Predicts Only Two Linux Distros Will Survive

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 22, 2006

“Novell boss Jack Messman is predicting that the open source
operating system market will be reduced to two dominant suppliers
in the next three to five years: Novell and Red Hat.

“Messman explained in an interview with vnunet.com that the
current plethora of operating systems could not last in the
corporate environment because of the development costs of designing
hardware and software to take advantage of them…”


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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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