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| Novell vows to keep fighting Microsoft 'juggernaut' |
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SYDNEY, Australia--Novell will continue its march against Microsoft
and the Vista operating system despite a recent alliance with the
software giant. "We're excited by the muted reaction to Vista," Ron Hovsepian, Novell's chief executive, told the media at a meeting here Thursday. "We're going to attack (Microsoft) vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can." Microsoft's Vista was five years in the making, so the code behind it is very complex, Hovsepian said, whereas open source is more nimble and flexible. "And we have got to take advantage of that." Despite Novell's commitment to attack the market on its own terms, Hovsepian acknowledges that there are benefits to its alliance with the software giant. The two companies signed the pact in November and fleshed out details of it this week. The reality is you can't escape the "Microsoft juggernaut" in the marketplace, so you have to work with them to get your foot in the door, Hovsepian said. When you talk to customers, he said, most will say "I hate Microsoft." Yet those same customers say 60 percent of their servers run on Windows--not Linux, which Novell backs. Read more: |
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