Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Well, look at Novell's history - MS can't buy Novell (anti-trust
>> concerns).  Novell was in the networking business before Microsoft. 
>> Market share did diminish, no doubt, once NT came onto the market
>> (part of the reason was bad management at Novell, part was
>> anticompetitive behaviour on MS' part).
> 
> Uh... didn't Novell almost go bankrupt? 
Mismanagement, as Jim says.
> ........................................And aren't they now a tiny
> minority company that most people have almost never heard of?
> 
A company that takes full page ads in Computer Weekly is hardly tiny and
a quick straw poll of the ten people I'm currently talking to gives an
80% "yes, of course I know who Novell are". The other 20% are a barmaid
and the pub landlord.
>> So you're saying that because MS is in the server market, nobody
>> should ever try to make a server?  We do very well, thankyouverymuch....
> 
> Well, it's your funderal. ;-)
> 
Why so defeatist? If everyone rolled over and died when M$ entered a
market there would be no innovation and CERN for one would be trying to
do its calculations on some 20-y-o IBM Big Iron. (I exaggerate but ykwim)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.

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