Summary: Novell loses business to Microsoft and other companies

THIS title states the obvious, but the news bears fresh evidence, starting with this report from Hungary:

Novell sees revenue from small companies shrink

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The Hungarian company is not allowed to publish local business and financial data due to the parent company's stipulations.

Another report speaks of an apparent departure from Novell, in favour of its close ally Microsoft. This happens in the UK where Novell suffers a lot these days.

As part of the migration strategy, Salford Software will upgrade all the existing Novell Netware and Microsoft systems to Microsoft's Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007 platforms. This will provide a distributed, resilient foundation for the College IT infrastructure.

Lastly, also from the UK comes this column which mentions past lessons Novell refuses to learn from.

That could lead to the kind of damming of revenue streams Microsoft has been famous for inflicting on the likes of WordPerfect, Novell, Lotus and others in the past.

Novell has plans for countering the blows. It is already offshoring and outsourcing jobs without making too much noise. The man in charge of Novell's Open Source strategy happens to be reading about outsourcing at the moment. He used to work for Microsoft by the way. Yes, the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source at Novell used to work there when he met Miguel de Icaza. ⬆