Lenny wrote:
Idiot. Linux is only 3.5% of revenue for Novell. Netware is more than
65% of revenue. If they decide to stop support Netware then company
will be bankrupt in little over one year.
Well, yes, if they continue to carry all the operations costs of
supporting Netware! And the Netware revenue probably carries a low or
negative profit margin.
That is, if they were to shed all their Netware business, they would
lose that revenue -- however, they would be a company bringing in $60
million a quarter in Linux, and with $1.5 billion in the bank.
Between that and identity management (and here Novell is doing
multibillion dollar work with the government) Novell would be a company
well in the black, with great new growing revenue streams. Far more
than could be said for the average "startup".
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