Novell acquired by Attachmate

It sounds like the end of the dinosaurs. Novell pioneered a lot of stuff, LAN, network operating system, directory, xns, routing stuff... and much more. They built the first PC based enterprise products in my opinion.

They however always operated in an closed mode spirit. Getting spec from them was impossible for years. They were talented for secret and exasperating administrative process.And shame on them for what they did to Suse.

Why is attachmate buying them? Unclear to me. One thing is sure... I will not regret them.

Download Sless 11 - Novell organisation at its best

I am preparing an upgrade of our main prod server to the new Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11. The latest, greatest, etc stuff from Novell Inc (pardon me,my excuse, I was a Suse users years ago).

After a (somehow slightly complicated) password recovery I could finally start downloading my ISO images.

Great Novell sent me an e-mail "Thank you for trying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell."

Cool ,they forgot the mention concerning Netware 2.15 !

My point, e-business is not more complicated than business - but not less...