[KLUG Members] Novell may nix NetWare development

[Adam Williams]

> Wow!

No joke.

> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5060413.html

"Novell also announced on Tuesday that it would be porting its entire
GroupWise collaboration software, a product that significantly overlaps
with Ximian's Evolution client, to Linux. "

This just makes good sense.  There are alot of Groupwise customers,
giving them a migration path less radical than going to exchange looks
like money in the bank.  This may give them a product other than NDS and
file/print server, which is a very good thing.  I suspect that Microsoft
could trounce them in those two areas (since it is basically included in
M$-Windows).

They've still got some pretty stiff competition.

Novel <-> M$ <-> OpenSource(Free!)
Groupwise - Exchange - OpenGroupware
NDS - ADS - OpenLDAP
Evolution? - Outlook - Evolution
Mono/Apache - .Net - Mono/Apache
XD (Bonobo) - Windows (COM) - XD or GNOME (Bonobo)
ZenWorks(+Red Carpet?) - Zero {NameOfWeek} - APT, Red Carpet, up2date
? - ?* - xmlBlaster, Castor, BIE (middleware)
n/a - SQLServer - PostgreSQL, SAPdb, Thunderbird (**)

* I know M$ has a product in this market, but I have no idea what the
name is.
** Not to mention commerical DBs like Oracle or DB2

Support for LAMP will help them with small shops without back-end
systems and possibly schools.  But how much for the bigger players with
complex hereogenious networks?  I suspect not much,

Does Novel have other products?