Now it's Novell.
While software company Novell has struggled through bosses and business models, a rival universe to Microsoft started expanding. This is the movement for free software. Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers. The new combin...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 369; no. 8349; p. 63 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
11/8/2003
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