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- From: tdonnell@ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM (Tom Donnelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.novell,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
- Message-ID: <4220@ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:00:33 GMT
- References: <62406@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM> <Bzo5zH.B6y@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: tdonnell@ncrsoph.Sophia.NCR.COM (Tom Donnelly)
- Organization: NCR European Development Center
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- In article <Bzo5zH.B6y@cs.uiuc.edu> watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe) writes:
- >jmatrow@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (John Matrow) writes:
- >
- >I'm wondering if other people could tell me what the implications
- >of this are.
- >
- >Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
- >I think a head on fight with Microsoft would be viewed very
- >negatively. Microsoft is a big company with no debt and a long
- >record of success. It is viewed as the next IBM (well, maybe there's
- >hope for Novell after all :).
- >
- [ Article Deleted ]
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- It may not be such a bad move to get Unix more into the mainstream. Novell
- has more experience and greater success in moving application and os software
- than AT&T / USL. Also, I have seen some recent articles which state that
- Microsoft may be facing anti-trust legislation requiring that it be broken up.
- We all know how long it took AT&T and the Bells to recover from divestiture.
- Maybe Novel can take advantage of that. And as for a head - on fight with
- an IBM like company, look at the Pc makers. Nobody views them too negatively.
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