Novell's Changing of the Guard Better Late Than Never?
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| Their beef: He (Messman) was too slow to slash costs, cater to customers,
| and battle more aggressively with Red Hat for Linux, an operating
| system distributed over the Internet that's becoming an increasingly
| popular alternative to Microsoft's Windows.
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| [...]
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| Hovsepian pledges a new, hungry, aggressive Novell will defend its
| position as the second-largest Linux distributor and give Red Hat something
| to worry about, finally. We're here to win and Novell is going to win, he
| told his sales staff on the morning of June 22 after the announcement. It's
| now time to unleash Novell, he said in an interview with BusinessWeek.com.
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| [...]
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| Meanwhile, Oracle Latest News about Oracle Chief Executive Larry
| Ellison has openly hinted the company may release its own Linux
| distribution. Currently, about 80 percent of companies that run Linux do so
| on Oracle databases; a move by Oracle into Linux would create some big
| waves.
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