Novell To Offer Open Source Desktop

This story make clear to me something I suspected. Novell really is very serious about taking on M$ on the desktop in the corporate environment. They are backing it to the hilt. Having used Linux on the desktop for maybe five years a few questions spring to mind:

1) Will it be bugfree enough to avoid annoying a significant number of users?

2) Will the replacement apps for M$ Office in particular be easy enough to use and bugfree enough?

3) How good will Novell be in user support to get through the difficult transition issues of many M$ addicts?

4) Will the looming Vista disaster for M$ be a major selling point for Novell?

Just a few ignorant questions by an outsider....

Well, you're asking the right questions. Only time will tell.

richo,

Shouldn't Novell be adding more bugs in order to meet the average Windows user's expectations of how software should work?

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why do they interview a HP veep for a Novell product? Of course he is going to diss a competitor. :)

I think they interviewed the HP veep earlier and when confronted with Novell's confidence he started backpedalling (Novell were targetting a specific set of corporate user not a general desktop market).

number6x: Dunno my experience has been that young OSS is buggier than proprietary stuff but mature OSS is less buggy. Contrast abiword today with 18 months ago.