Novell's Last Week - Part VI: Novell's Proprietary Business Faces Uncertain Future Under AttachMSFT
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-11-29 16:05:00 UTC
Modified: 2010-11-29 16:05:00 UTC
Summary: Despite lack of news coverage about Novell's proprietary software assets, it is worth assessing the impact of AttachMSFT discontinuing parts of it
It will be at least a week until Novell customers begin to get a clearer idea of what will happen with their favorite products after Attachmate closes on its acquisition of the company.
Regardless of what AttachMSFT will do with ZENworks, Novell has finally released some more behind-the-scenes footage from "ZENworks vs the World" (advertisement).
Will AttachMSFT bother with Vibe, which is not even a finished product just yet? Whatever they decide to do, Novell's marketing puppets (in Spanish) will carry on throwing videos into YouTube [1, 2], hoping for one last "hurrah" before the less successful operations get shut down. AttachMSFT is not a charity and being the proprietary company that it is, it is likely to behave like Oracle.
Within months or just weeks we won't be hearing so much about Novell. Perhaps AttachMSFT will carry on using the trademark (like AMD uses "ATI"), but there has been no clarification about it. ⬆
Owing to corrupt management the EPO has resorted to corporate crime or organised crime designed to benefit large corporations. Who will pay the price? Everybody else in Europe.
"when you are doing your computing you must not entrust that to somebody else's server because users including you should have control over their own computing but you can never have control over what somebody else's server does because somebody else installs software in that computer and configures it and thus decides what computing it is going to do."
