Lets clear up some misconceptions

[Jeremy Fowler]

Ok, I have no problem with people's opinions, but lets get the facts straight:

1. Novell never bought Corel Linux, Xandros did.
http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,46421,00.html

2. The only link Novell has to Corel, is it sold WordPerfect to them in 1996 - which Corel still 
produces.
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel/Products/productInfo&id=1042153063297

3. Corel is still a working viable company owned by Vector Capital.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1234137,00.asp

4. Novell has had stable client that won't crash Windows for years now. Your misconception is based 
on the fact that you were running Win95 as the OS. Win95 crashed more than a blind race car driver 
and blue screened whenever you looked at it funny. Ever since Microsoft produced a halfway stable 
desktop OS (Win2k), Novell's client has run very smoothly and seamlessly. Plus, with Netware 6 you 
don't even need the client as you can use the native compatibility mode and connect however you 
wish. 

5. Novell servers are world renown for being stable and secure. My Novell servers are up as much as 
my Linux servers and the only problem I have ever had with them was due to failed hardware. 
Properly configured and on server quality hardware, Novell runs forever. The University of North 
Carolina is a great example of that. They had a Novell server that had been running for years 
without a hitch until they did an audit - to which they couldn't find the server. They followed the 
network cabling and discovered that maintenance workers sealed it behind a wall. 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/18265.html

You realize we have been having this argument since 2001... To me that's amusing...

http://www.kclug.org/archives/2001/mar/0095.shtml
http://www.kclug.org/archives/2001/mar/0102.shtml

..and once again in 2002, to which I made my Novell/Linux prediction:

"I'm sure Novell has some life left in them. Netware may not be around forever, 
but Novell makes other products as well. It's never a good idea to discount a 
company for good. Look at Apple, everyone thought they would be gone by now too. 
OSX has changed all that. Take everything with a grain of salt and evaluate 
products on their features. Don't be too quick to assume something is crap just 
because <fill in name here> made it. Novell has made some strong ties with Linux 
and I wouldn't be too surprised if Novell decided one day to come out with it's 
own distro."

http://www.kclug.org/archives/2002/dec/0148.shtml

plus this rehash in 2003... Lets pick up where we left off in 2004 shall we? Maybe then Novell will 
have proved themselves to you, maybe your opinion of Novell will have changed, but I doubt it. Some 
people just get an belief in the head and its next to impossible to get out no matter what the 
evidence is to the contrary.