Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-10 Thread Merrill Oveson
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 20:18 -0600, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> Anyone want to take a crack at explaining how terminating a large >> portion of your workforce and moving your headquarters works to make >> you more competitive? > > Novell's offici

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-10 Thread Bryan Sant
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > As for what Novell does, I haven't known that for a long time, Me either. Here are the two things I *thought* they did. 1) Sell/support legacy Novell products. GroupWise, eDirectory -- is there anything else? 2) Sell/support the "alternativ

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-10 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 20:18 -0600, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Anyone want to take a crack at explaining how terminating a large > portion of your workforce and moving your headquarters works to make > you more competitive? Novell's official headquarters were moved to Waltham, Mass. because that was w

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread S. Dale Morrey
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Richard Esplin wrote: > I am told that the SuSE team was untouched. Odd I was told they will be spun off... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/attachmate-reveals-novell-suse-linux-plans/8771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http:

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread Richard Esplin
I am told that the SuSE team was untouched. On Monday May 9 2011 20:18:08 "S. Dale Morrey" wrote: > Also what exactly is Novell doing now days? It says they are trimming > down unneeded departments, but as far as I knew the departments that > were getting cut out were what Novell did? What do t

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread Tod Hansmann
On 5/9/2011 8:18 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Anyone want to take a crack at explaining how terminating a large > portion of your workforce and moving your headquarters works to make > you more competitive? I mean is it a leanness issue? Also what > exactly is Novell doing now days? It says they

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread Henry Paul
On 05/09/2011 08:20 PM, Scott Edwards wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:18 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> Just saw this article on the front page of KSL. >> http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=15475177 > ...snip >> Anyone want to take a crack at explaining how terminating a large >> portion of your work

Re: Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread Scott Edwards
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:18 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Just saw this article on the front page of KSL. > http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=15475177 ...snip > Anyone want to take a crack at explaining how terminating a large > portion of your workforce and moving your headquarters works to make > yo

Novell in the news, I am so confused.

2011-05-09 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Just saw this article on the front page of KSL. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=15475177 Evidently they are on their way back to being competitive, but I don't think I really follow the article. I'm not positive but it does sound more like a press release than an article to me. Since I'm current