Comments on: Novell Boycotts Prove to Be Effective

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:53:00 +0000

Thanks, Richard. It’s good to have your backing. I suppose that by “active” I meant “not dormant”, referring to updates.

By: Rich Morgan

Rich Morgan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:36:14 +0000

Hey, we’re still active over at Open Addict. Our stance on free software and the Microsoft/Novell deal is still the same. It just isn’t the only thing we talk about. Now we’ve got the Xandros/Microsoft deal to contend with…

Anyway, just to reiterate, Open Addict is still firmly against any deal that could compromise the freedom established with the GPL.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:23:10 +0000

Red Hat doesn’t have anything that can come close to GroupWise or Exchange. OpenExchange and some of the other “open” alternatives aren’t good enough. Red Hat’s directory server isn’t as mature or flexible as eDirectory. Although, for what it’s worth, Active Directory is a cludge. Zenworks, even with its bugs, has no equal. How about Identity management? Does Red Hat dabble there?

Those are some hefty differences or deficiencies depending on what you’re looking at. The groupware part of it is the biggest thing which would push us to Microsoft.

By: Draconishinobi

Draconishinobi — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:40:58 +0000

And Red Hat, can’t … why ? who knows …

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:47:40 +0000

Just to provide a bit of balance and a some food for thought. If Novell folds, my shop will go 100% Microsoft. Not out of spite, but because I won’t be able to stop it. Novell is the only thing keeping Redmond from ruling our server room. Novell is the only company that can compete with Microsoft within the scope of our requirements.

By: Doug Charles

Doug Charles — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:01:09 +0000

“BoycottNovell.com appears to be the only site which has remained active.”

Nope, doesn’t appear to be very effective. The FSF types continues to isolate themselves from open source.