Posted 7:48 PM (0) comments

Wakeup call of the decade

EV1, the first company (outside of Microsoft) to admit it licensed SCO's Unix to keep from being sued over running Linux may be suffering fallout and loss of business because of the deal. Robert Marsh, CEO of the Houston internet service/presence provider (ISP/IPP) admits that if he had it all to do over again, he wouldn't. Well, duh!, who shouldn't know that. Blackmail and extortion should have no place in business or technology.

Still, the second thoughts might deter others from making the same mistake. Maybe every cloud does have a silver lining!

Posted 5:43 PM (0) comments

Pay no attention to the man talking to the curtain

Still talking out of both sides of his mouth (and hoping no one can keep both sides in view), Jack Messman supposedly told eWeek that Novell will Drop Standalone NetWare before the year is out. The NetWare 7 kernel will ship as part of the new Open Enterprise Server, but that will also include the SuSE 9 operating system - Messman's preferred choice for your hardware. So even though you won't be able to buy NetWare, per se, after this year runs out, Messman still had the nerve to say "We are still committed to it and it is not going away."

We know its not going away, Jack, because users will continue to run it until the cows (and the penguins) come home. There are still NetWare 2 servers out there and they haven't shipped in a dozen years!