"There are lots of pages of data and financial charts out there,
enough to make your head explode.
"My thinking, as a student and, over time, a person working in
the field, what I saw is that people became absolutely fascinated
with the world of GUI.
"Novell was late to the game in terms of providing GUI tools.
Novell did not get into the OEM game and unscrupulous contract
deals that MS did either.
"It is also of historic relevance that Novell was always known
as a solid product. It worked."