Jim:
Each one of your answer addresses the problems that Novell has/had with their products, except Chevron buying all MS and nothing from Novell. In the posts on this board, while there are some that mention problems with the products, most of the revelent ones are concerned with marketing and PR.
If you skim the last 6500 posts, skip about 6000 of them, you still are left with about 500 (plus or minus) that still say the same things:
About marketing (inconsistent advertising - where's Rock the Net after its one day debut about 2 months ago),
Refuting FUD (if the press articles are wrong, misleading, where are the responses), major partnerships with other companies (plural - meaning more than one),
Lack of customer support before or after the sales - see previous posts of Novell Var pushing NT vs. Intraware, and before that, the posts on of users trying to get a beta copy of Novell product (vs. saying 'That damn Novell keeps flooding me with more test products that I don't have time to look at anything else')
Re-read post 8914.
<In other words ... get noticed ... get more people looking at your products, you can make money on the 2nd sale to them later ... just try to not lose money on the first sale.>
Like I said, just re-re-re-re-repeats of what been said for the last 6 months on this board. "Why can't current management do these things" - that's a question that has been on the board for 6 months also. Like finding a new CEO, it should take 6 months after being pointed out a problem to solve it. That why new management is being sought by this board.
So, come up with the answers to what marketing and PR is doing (unless Novell advertising is under a non-disclosure agreement) or if you can, get some marketing/PR personnel to post here. We would be interested in seeing what they have to say.
Mat |
