The VAR Guy and Matt Asay have some harsh words for Novell. The former says that Novell's numbers still don’t add up, and therefore they must rethink their strategy.

The VAR Guy thinks it’s time for Novell to change course. The company disappointed investors yet again this week by delivering weak financial results and a quarterly loss. As Reuters noted, Novell in every quarter for more than a year has either missed analysts’ targets, made disappointing forecasts or both. Ouch.

Matt Asay, marketing VP at Alfresco, takes a disturbing revelation which we recently mentioned a little further.

Who cares about the Novell/Microsoft patent deal?

Not their customers, apparently.

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But then, Novell's sales team isn't, apparently, feeding the company. Microsoft's sales team is. And that, my friends, should give every single Novell employee, partner, and customer pause. Why would your company's success depend on the very company that most wants to obliterate you, once it takes care of Red Hat (which, by the way, it's doing an amazingly shoddy job of). Foolish, foolish Novell.