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Far Too Little Too Late

thappy@... 28th Jul 2010

I remember being invited to a Novell ?state of the company? address by then CEO Jack Messman where it was promised the lack of heterogeneous client support (read ?Apple?) in new Novell products would be addressed. This was apparently designed to be an olive branch to the millions of displaced Netware users who had traditionally used Novell products as a reliable Rosetta stone between Mac and PC worlds in medical, multimedia and education systems among others. Messman was asked directly if Novell planned to bring back Apple client support in its server, security and application products. He responded by asking ?Apple? are they still around?? then proceeded to belittle those who would dare ask such a visionary organization as Novell to waste time developing for a dead platform. As I review Novell?s long stock and product valuation slide from that date to today on my iPad I had to ask myself ?Novell? has anyone really cared what they?ve done from the days when customers mattered??. They are still a self-aggrandizing collective of has-beens trying to tell the market what it wants while struggling to remain relevant in a world that?s left them for dead long ago.