Although the suse linux business has seen growth, it has been eating lots of company resources. The commodity OS, is not helping the compnay much yet, except for subscriptions bought by Microsoft. Lets hope MS keeps buying our stuff. The WorkGroup Business is down, but watch for some new innovation coming here. The identity and security stuff our down, but so is most of the software industry, watch for these to rebound next year.

Really, as part of the long standing suse community I see the exact opposite of what your implying in the article. If anything the suse community has been steadily getting stronger. The MS deal had little to no effect on it's community. In fact it has benefited from improved technology and increased funding for it's sponsored projects. Try taking a dip in reality sometime.

Can you please spend your time writing about cars maybe, because you’re an absolute joke of a writer in the I.T sector?

The title is where he spent his time, not the content. I really should know better. Pulling the bookmark out so I won't be tempted.

Novell’s Linux business, and Red Hat, both doing “reasonably well” (i.e. growing in profitability and not having to lay off staff) is pretty bloody good considering we’re in a recession. Contrast that with proprietary-software companies like Microsoft and Adobe, suffering shrinking profits and having to lay off staff, and it’s pretty clear a gradual, but inexorable shift is happening, away from proprietary software and towards Free.

Seems you didn't do your homework. You say "Groupwise should be ... updated along with other products", when in fact Groupwise 8 was a major upgrade released around December of 08.

You also say "Novell has a product list that includes stuff that either does not run on Linux or can only run on Windows"

However, all of Novells "legacy" products like Groupwise, Zenworks, eDirectory all run on Linux, Netware or Windows.