Novell Defends SUSE Linux Revenue Performance
“Novell Inc’s president and COO Ron Hovsepian has defended the
company’s SUSE Linux business, maintaining that it is performing
better than the company’s revenue figures suggest.“Hovsepian also told Computer Business Review that he has put
the Waltham, Massachusetts-based company’s EMEA sales force on
warning that he expects to see improvement by the end of the year,
as the company tries to placate frustrated Wall Street investors
and analysts…”
Novell Sees Desktop Linux Success, If Microsoft Plays Fair
“Whether potential users will get a chance to see the fruits of
Novell’s labor is open to question, however, as Hovsepian told
Computer Business Review, Microsoft was doing its best to put
potential PC OEMs off the scent.“‘There’s an increasing market pressure that they [Microsoft]
are inflicting on our partners’ marketing dollars that are
perceived to be at risk if they begin to work with other vendors,’
said Hovsepian, who maintained that the company was nonetheless
having positive conversations with hardware vendors, especially in
Europe…”