Star Novell Reports Leap in Linux Revenues
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Dec 2008 16:13 UTC
Novell and Ximian It kind of slipped underneath our radar last Friday, but Novell has released its financial earnings figures for the fourth quarter. While the company still shows a loss of 16 million USD (compared to 18 million during the same quarter last year), individual divisions of the company are doing quite well, with only two of them showing losses. Total revenue was 243 million USD. Interestingly enough, the company's Linux business is doing very, very well.
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segedunum
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2005-07-06

Oh, there's no need to think, it's plainly obvious. There's a market for selling and providing support for Linux installations, and Microsoft jumped on the opportunity to do so.

If you believe that then you have taken leave of your senses, and it is totally at odds with the nature of the deal and relationship that exists.

Let's put it this way, there's more of a market to be had in selling your own stuff and making sure Linux installations (who you compete with) don't encroach on you selling your own stuff.

They realised they could make money by selling and providing support for Linux, so that's what they're doing.

Meanwhile, on planet Earth, the successful companies who have their own stuff to sell (things like, oh, Windows Server) look after those interests first and make sure that competitors (oh, things like Linux distributors) don't encroach on their ability to sell their own stuff and make money.

Selling and providing support for your competitors dilutes your business in a rather stupid way, and the proof is in Novell's overall financial results where they have had to stretch out their Linux business in an esoteric way to mask the truth.

Sory, I don't do black helicopters.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. When you're painted into a corner and you're shown to be just a bit daft, paint the opposing position as a conspiracy theory by mentioning black helicopters. We get it.

It's a wild and fantastical conspiracy theory that it is not normal business practice to do deals with your competitors to try and stop them from competing with you because they're eating all your lunch. I know. It's so far-fetched.

I know you have an axe to grind about Novell (although I believe there's not much iron left in that axe after all the grinding you've been doing during the past few years), but that's your problem.

Oh, there's plenty of iron left, which is equal to Novell's stupidity, and there's no harming in pointing it out. That's why people make comments ;-).

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