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Technology Stocks : Novell (NOVL) dirt cheap, good buy?

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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (42318)	7/15/2006 1:28:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) of 42771

The company can never succeed and for one simple reason --- it cannot commercialize good ideas, it buys creativity and then kills whatever is living in what it bought. It's even simpler than that: 1) Apple changes over to BSD UNIX a very difficult but SUCCESSFUL transition. The key? USABILITY Apple changes over to Intel chips another difficult transition. The key? USABILITY Now Apple has a super cool UNIX product out there complete with cool laptops. Hell Linux admins are buying Macbooks to admin their systems. Not Novell books. 2) Novell buys Ximian. For what reason? USABILITY - did it push? NO. Nothing much happened. The mindset at Novell is command lines are usable. Designers are "artsy types" and not worthy. Yeah tell that to Steve Jobs. So they threw away BILLIONS. That's what it comes down to. A refusal to hire interface designers to put a great usable interface on Linux. Microsoft is so weak now. Linux would kill them if it had a great interface. Good installers.

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