Comments on: Novell hopping with news, but it’s not all good http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hopping-with-news-but-its-not-all-good/ A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com blog Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: ewriter http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hopping-with-news-but-its-not-all-good/#comment-1387 ewriter Wed, 28 May 2008 19:48:35 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hopping-with-news-but-its-not-all-good/#comment-1387 Roy should get over his flame-throwing self and try the facts out. From all accounts I’ve read, Novell and Astrum flirted. So did Novell and rpath. Novell surely also responsibly assessed it ability to do an appliance program on its own rather than license from others. In the end, it chose the most market promising combination.

Roy makes it sound like Novell and Astrum dated, got engaged and were either at the altar or on their honeymoon. That just isn’t so.

]]> By: joshuadf http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hopping-with-news-but-its-not-all-good/#comment-1388 joshuadf Tue, 27 May 2008 20:38:06 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/novell-hopping-with-news-but-its-not-all-good/#comment-1388 I don’t particularly like the attitude that the Computerworld editorial “Retraining IT staff slows business change” revealed, either:

Ron Hovsepian, the CEO of Novell. Hovsepian said that in the past year, he has had to replace 24% of his workers to gain the skills Novell needs. “One thousand of our 4,000 employees are new to Novell,” he said. “Candidly, among all the good revenue stories and the profit improving, people don’t realize how much we’ve really gone in and changed our workforce to get the right skills here.”

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