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

Novell is to release parts of its networking software to the open source community, as it attempts to attract software developers to its technology.
At Novell's U.S.-based annual user group conference, Chris Stone, senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, revealed the company would release core protocols for the company's flagship network operating system, NetWare, to computer programmers.

However, Stone said Novell will not release any security-related protocols, which are key components of NetWare and NDS. "The company has always had this fear people would re-engineer NetWare. Who would want to do that?" Stone said.

Peter Joseph, corporate strategist at Novell U.K., said it is trying "to determine which elements [of Novell software] would best suit the open source space. But we have no official announcements to make yet."

Peter Dawes, sales director at Linux reseller Linux IT, said: "A lot of vendors are wondering why Linux is so popular, and are pointing the finger at its openness. Some of these moves are half-hearted and do not inspire confidence in the developer community that they are genuine and will remain forever."

informationweek.com
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