NOVELL'S latest major defeat (for GroupWise at least) was the City of Los Angeles. Millions of dollars may be at stake. It gets worse though.
GOOGLE has struck a landmark deal with Sydney's Macquarie University to provide staff members with its free, web-based offering, Gmail, a move that reaps millions of dollars in savings.
Macquarie University has revealed plans to ditch its "inferior" Novell GroupWise staff email platform and replace it with Google's Gmail offering, following an earlier successful roll-out among students.
Announcements were made a couple of days ago that Macquarie University was discarding its corporate GroupWise email infrastructure in favour of one provided by Google's Gmail. Novell responds to the reasons offered for the change.
Replacing the GWAVA email filtering components on Sunsweet’s Novell GroupWise collaboration server, Sendio reduced system load over 93% by eliminating all of the 33,500 average daily “junk” email messages that bombarded the company. In addition, the Sendio solution allows the Sunsweet IT department to save over three man-days per month that were previously required to manually maintain the email filtering software.
That emerging market leaves big on-premise email providers like Microsoft and Novell fending off threats from the likes of IBM, Google, and a handful of smaller players.
High profile wins for Google include transferring the city of Los Angles' 30,000 employees from Novell communications systems to Google Apps.
Transend Migrator for IBM Lotus Foundations includes powerful “batch templates” which allow new Lotus Foundations customers to migrate mailboxes from competitive products (like Microsoft Exchange/Outlook or Novell GroupWise) to Lotus Foundations, quickly and reliably.
Novell, the third largest market participant, has retained its user base but has not seen significant growth. A handful of open-source vendors and smaller providers offer an alternative to the Exchange and Lotus platforms, but they have a small market presence.
2. Novell
Novell's woes continued last year. In addition to being mired in litigation over the UNIX operating system, its earnings faltered also. Then, in November, the Linux vendor announced it was cutting 100 to 130 of its 3,900 jobs and that it was also suspending contributions to employees' 401K pension plans. Earlier in the year, back in March, Novell laid off 100 employees as well.
“Last year, Ximian's Miguel de Icaza had the audacity to publicly say that "Gentoo is eternally broken."”To make matters worse, Ximian's Friedman left Novell last week [1, 2, 3, 4]. Last year, Ximian's Miguel de Icaza had the audacity to publicly say that "Gentoo is eternally broken." Well, based on the facts as we have them, "Novell is eternally broken," not Gentoo. Just to be clear, Miguel de Icaza makes other such remarks to belittle GNU/Linux and he echoes the Microsoft lies about the market share of GNU/Linux on the desktop. That Microsoft MVP award which he received last week [1, 2] is a perfect fit. If/when Novell goes bankrupt/sold [1, 2, 3], Microsoft can probably squeeze him in for a job. He can 'pull an O'Kelly'.
To finish this post on a positive note, here is a decent new article about the success of GNU/Linux on the desktop:
Desktop Linux Market Share Will Rise, Thanks to Microsoft
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Yes, Microsoft was happy to let China pirate Windows in order to get them “addicted” to it. A decade later just as Bill Gates said, they are in the business of collecting from the very junkies they created. One has to wonder what China would be using, had Microsoft not allowed this to happen. Exactly ten years since Bill Gates’ speech, Microsoft stepped up anti-piracy campaigns in China.
Microsoft is searching for ways to make people pay for Windows (and rightly so) but the harder they make it and the more they lock the system down, the more attractive other options become.
In August last year, four Chinese people were fined and sentenced to 3.5 years jail for distributing a pirated version of Windows XP, called Tomato Garden.
Microsoft said:“The case served as a warning to anyone thinking about knocking off Windows 7, a new-generation Windows operating system.”Microsoft allowed the Chinese to pirate previous versions of Windows, but now with Windows 7 out it’s finally time to collect. This court case did serve as a timely reminder of the consequences of piracy, but will it have the desired effect that Microsoft is seeking?
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-01-15 20:28:26
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Cocaine-Discovery-Prompts-NASA-Safety-Review-759564/
would go far in explaining that:
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=1329
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-15 20:41:28
See the following (regarding Microsoft in NASA):
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/05/28/microsoft-poisons-nasa/ http://boycottnovell.com/2009/11/23/faa-and-nasa-msft-dependent-mingling/ http://boycottnovell.com/2009/10/11/microsoft-swine-flu/ http://boycottnovell.com/2009/11/26/silver-lie-microsoft-mou/ http://boycottnovell.com/2009/12/21/fat-cats-from-redmond/
Needs Sunlight
2010-01-15 21:33:48
http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/3f/3f_1.htm
Maybe NASA can contract out to Nigeria since at home they don't seem to find (or maybe allow) any technical competence.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-15 21:42:11
jmmarton
2010-01-16 12:42:32
Also, why is the Transend news a "big story?" They have tools to migrate between any one of a number of e-mail systems, and in fact they also have tools to migrate TO GroupWise.
http://www.transend.com/supported_mail_systems.asp
All they've done is add another platform (Lotus Foundations) to their portfolio. In fact, if you read what you posted, you'll see the tool also supports migrating from Exchange to Lotus Foundations. So is this "bad news" for Microsoft as well?
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-16 12:59:06
I'll clarify and fix the grammatical slip ("getting dumping").
jmmarton
2010-01-20 14:13:21
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/panasonic_ibm_lotuslive_contract/
Joe
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 15:36:50
JohnD
2010-01-16 16:17:52
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-16 17:47:41
jmmarton
2010-01-20 14:16:48
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2009208820_microsoftdebt12.html
The tax laws are written in a way that for most companies it is beneficial to leverage debt as they are able to write off the interest in a similar fashion to how individuals write off mortgage interest. In fact, there are financial formulas for determining the amount of "leverage" a company is using which calculates the amount of debt as it relates to shareholders' equity. There is nothing wrong with having debt and does not mean that a company is doing poorly.
It's simple finance.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 15:38:32
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 15:39:35
jmmarton
2010-01-20 15:43:29
Joe
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 15:46:25
jmmarton
2010-01-20 15:48:34
Joe
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 16:21:46
JohnD
2010-01-16 16:19:43
JohnD
2010-01-16 16:20:31
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-16 17:46:55
Roy Schestowitz
2010-01-20 16:22:11