Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> espoused: > [This comes from Maureen O'Gara who is extremely unreliable, but nonetheless:] > > Novell is Back Losing Money When This Time Last Year It Made Money > > ,----[ Quote ] >| Novell hinted the SEC's concerns might have had something to do with Novell's >| admittedly complicated arrangement with Microsoft, which at the end of year >| one was said to have realized $122 million, 51% of their bogie. > `---- > > http://www.sys-con.com/read/475944_p.htm > > What a surprise. Not. > This was clearly on the way. I posted Novell's results some time ago here for the last couple of years, and it's clear that they've been heading into trouble for quite some time. It's a great shame that they bought SuSE, as the long-term damage to SuSE could be terminal. The lesson for all the CEO types is that purchasing a successful and growing Open Source distribution of some kind will not rescue your company from its proprietary roots, nor will it make it profitable if your business model is broken. -- | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk | | Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ | | Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ | | My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |