David, I see you're still putting words in others' mouths:
> If the "geeks were right as usual", then we would all have either
> NEXT boxes or Apples on our desks.
Show me ONE technical article that ever made such a ludicrous comment. No geek in their right mind would ever say something this idiotic, and your attempt to suggest such says more about you and your debating skills than it does about anything else.
However -- just to prove my point -- there are many analysts who WOULD be so stupid as to say the opposite: that Win95 will kill Apple, or that NT will kill Sun and Novell, or yadda yadda yadda.
Lot's of technical folk are very up on Novell. IntranetWare won Network Computing's State-of-the-NOS roundup for the fifth year in a row (see techweb.cmp.com. BTW, Novell also won NWC's Directory Services comparison, coming next month. Even PC Weak -- whose analyst/columnists routinely bash Novell without basis -- gives IntranetWare the highest grade (see pcweek.com.
Lots more examples: ComputerWorld, Network World, LAN Times, LAN Magazine, the list keeps going, have all given technical reviews and comparison awards to Novell. The geeks know the score, and are telling the world. Meanwhile, analysts come on CNBC and say "Novell is dead" or "Novell is losing customers" without any merit behind their statements whatsoever.
In a year, the geeks will still be right, but the analysts will have changed their tunes. |
