Are customers worried about the direction that Novell and NetWare is headed?
Customers don’t necessarily buy OSes–they buy the services on top. In many cases the reason that, say, Microsoft is so successful is because they differentiate themselves with the Office application suite. We didn’t do that. So now we have a chance on a brand new platform to get it right, to do it the right way–the complete stack. And the openness of Linux is so much freer. They can try something, and if they don’t like it, they can try something else. They don’t get locked. And that’s why you see such a burning desire–both from an economic as well as a technical perspective–to move to Linux. It’s also a common infrastructure upon which to build applications and services. Which is why we’re going there. What you see us doing is a very strategic move. In April, we announced that we were going to take NetWare services–file, print, directory, et cetera–and we were going to place them on Linux and we called that NetWare 7. So that should be evidence that NetWare is not going anywhere
