Summary: Now that there is no Novell, the only option for some administrators is Microsoft
Microsoft not only took control of Novell patents. It also had a close partner take control of Novell's products that compete against Microsoft. So Attachmate becomes a "controlled opposition" of sorts and in a future post we will show that Attachmate does almost nothing to compete with Microsoft (this requires a lot more research). Meanwhile, a new video uploaded to YouTube shows the sort of effect the sale has had. Here it is as Flash (no WebM yet and TinyOgg is shutting down next week):
There is nothing else about Novell in YouTube, except this one new video and some unrelated cruft. Novell is pretty much dead there and when it comes to OpenSUSE, here is all that we found:
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