In a ZDNet story at the following link:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100088,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs
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I found this perception of Novell... interesting... perhaps we should
forward this to Carly?

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In a stark reality check of Novell's plans, Ablove and other customers are
worried that Novell's intense focus on consulting could hurt its new
technology research and development efforts. "I'm concerned the technology
people--(former CEO) Eric Schmidt (and others)--have gone, and what's left
are the consultants," he said.

Former executives said the Cambridge Technology acquisition raises the
specter of Novell fading as a company focused on technology and instead
relying on consultants who can milk a steady revenue stream to make its
quarterly earnings expectations. A long string of former technology
innovators, including Wang Laboratories and Digital Equipment, followed a
similar path, only to vanish.

As one former executive put it: "I think the last gasp of any great
technology company is to become a services company."
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