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Novell Is Still Here?: Page 2 of 2

One of Novell's new products will co-ordinate management of Linux and Windows 2003 Server. Now I understand why you need to manage Windows boxes with another piece of software. But Linux? You log in, you do what you need and log out.

Novell executives have made missteps in the past (they should be a B-school course studying their missteps, but I digress). Will this be another in a long line, time will only tell, but as Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman said, "We're merely giving the community software and services to make Linux easier for the CIO to use."

Shouldn't the CIO already know how?