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Surprisingly enough, the most credible short-term threat to Novell's NOS
dominance may be Pathworks.  Apparently it is a close second to Netware in the
overall U.K. market, and takes *first* place in large shops there.

I'd have to agree that the one to watch for the middle term is Windows NT.

Either way, Microsoft gets some or all of the money.

The shape of the price curve means different things at different sites.  Here
it is *much* easier to sell us licenses in 250-user chunks, per-server, than to
sell us individual client licenses.  Needless to say, the big red N can be seen
everywhere on campus.

Perhaps what will happen, is that the market will split:  Microsoft and its
value-added channels will take the small sites, where per-user licensing is
attractive, and Novell will hold the large corporate sites with its products
aimed at enterprise-wide networking.  Not to say that MS can't do the
enterprise too, but I don't think they've been serious about it long enough to
take that market from Novell just yet.  Still, MS continues to grow because
people usually underestimate MS' ferocity and cunning when it identifies a
market that it wants.

It remains to be seen whether Novell's expansion into applications will aid its
growth with additional revenue, or slow growth by softening the organization's
focus.  Interesting times, indeed.
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