Every other Novell executive I spoke to during BrainShare understood the work done by Red Hat, United Linux, and other companies such as IBM to make Linux more robust, reliable, and scalable. We think we can bring that to the Linux kernel.” A hurried written apology appeared the next day from Messman and claimed he misspoke. It hasn’t had somebody like Novell worrying about making it robust, reliable and scalable for very much time. During BrainShare he told a reporter for Computerworld that “Linux is an immature operating system right now. Jack Messman, a long-time Novell director who took over as co-chairman last year, has a broader resume (meaning less technical). Novell will attend the Linux party by adding the option of running a Linux kernel under NetWare services, but not until NetWare 7, which won’t hit the streets for at least 18 to 24 months. MySQL for NetWare 6 has been available since December and can be downloaded from Novell’s Web site. Many of the list above can be used with NetWare 6 or even earlier versions for instance, Apache 1.3.26 ships with NetWare 6 today. ExteNd Application Server 4.0 (from Novell’s SilverStream acquisition)ĭevelopers should have little or no trouble porting existing open source applications to NetWare 6.5.NetWare 6.5, the upcoming revision which is scheduled to ship this summer, includes: After hearing from Novell executives and attending the technical presentations at the conference,Ĭurrent open source application developers gave Novell a grade of A, while Linux partisans gave Novell an A for promises but a C for late delivery.įirst the good news. Novell sent mixed messages at its BrainShare conference last month.
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