Red Hat and Novell are moving into an area where Microsoft is more vulnerable: Enterprise computing. Although many businesses run their computers on Windows, Linux is still a powerful presence in the Web-server market, and most enterprise computing is moving to a Web-based model.
Recent Shifts at Red Hat, Novell will give them more edge on MS
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I haven’t met too many admins in those areas, but some of the ones I know, will not ditch nt or 2k for their servers to linux or bsd. They admit that even though it has come a long way in the years, they still won’t implement it for anything other than a firewall.
These are small time “msce” admins though, so I can imagine that they would like to use their cert
I wonder if there are other admins who have similar feelings or if they are open to the idea of an open alternative that will do the job just as well if not better.
1) Novell’s eDirectory is better then MSFT’s ActiveDirectory; there are a lot of companies using eDirectory in W2K and WXP networks. Also, eDirectory is better suited to handle a mixed network then ActiveDirectory is.
2) The purchase of Xeiman(?) give Novell a good replacement for Outlook and Exchange. The client software works with Exchange and the server software works with Outlook. Thus, you can freely mix and match systems in your enterprise.
3) Novell has a very large distribution network and a lot of customers wanting to move away from NetWare. With SUSE, Novell will have an official Linux distrubution to move their NetWare customers to.
Thus, Novell = MSFT on the server side. The only thing Novell is missing on the server side is a SQL solution. For low end SQL you can use MySQL, SyBase, or Progress and for the high end you can use IBM’s DB2 or Orical(?).
you can use MySQL, SyBase, or Progress
it’s “postgres” as in “after progress”… and it’s not so little anymore!
I thinks this statement show that the authors of this article isn’t in touch with the NOS market.
“The timing of the move is critical too. Microsoft has been steadily building its own networking products into Windows, clearly threatening Novell’s networking power.”
I think the threating stage has been over for awhile now.
making linux a desktop OS; was instead put into the server side?
Linux has about 1% of the desktop market. But how much time and effort has gone into desktop applications and the like.
Maybe redhat has the right idea, focus on the server side, at least for now.
I think the threating stage has been over for awhile now.
I’ll say. Anyone remember Microsoft’s project code named “Visine”? It meant “Get the red out”.
Xeiman? You mean: Ximian
http://www.ximian.com
there’s a press release about Novell buying them on their website.
Novell will soon find out what Red Hat already knows – you can’t survive on service alone, and the Linux crowd has a really tight wallet.
Now that the reality has set in that stabalized versions of Linux will come with a $ cost, these companies will be forced to compete with M$ on “value”.
It will be a tough sell, especially if the costs for enterprise Linux equal the cost of Windows or bonafide Unix. I saw where Novell’s new “Red Carpet” management tool would cost $200 per client? Yikes!
It never free for the Corporate market, simpy less expensive than Windows…
more redhat bashing here… interesting how people complain about free software…
pretty disgusting…