Google and Microsoft eat Novell's lunch and nobody is offering to buy Novell despite its implicit invitation

An analysis of Novell's real financial state, which the news seems to voluntarily cover in a shallow way

Novell’s latest quarterly financial results, revealed today, were a mixed bag for the SUSE Linux provider. Novell made progress in some areas. But didn’t really thrive in others. Where does the company go from here? The answers will likely surface at the Novell BrainShare. Here are the details.

Novell is losing its UK distributors and there is little hope for rebound based on the financial situation and general trend

Novell ponders slicing and dicing the business; Microsoft claimed to be failing too

More about the bonuses/benefits given to Novell's CEO and the grim future which lies ahead as a result of self-imposed dependence

A detailed look and some analysis of Novell's results for this quarter

A FREQUENTLY-ASKED question is, “what distinguishes between the FSF’s approach to .NET and that of Novell?”

Okay, the headline is a bit dramatic. But the Sun-MySQL business combo makes The VAR Guy wonder: Will Novell wake up and start buying open source application providers … or is Novell doomed to repeat the exact same mistakes it made in the 1990s? Alas, Novell in 2008 looks a lot like Novell from a decade ago. That’s not good. Here’s why.