Jack Messman Quotations

We are pleased with the continued improvement in the core business this quarter. Our growth businesses of Linux, Identity and Resource Management are performing well, and we believe we will continue to see growth throughout the fiscal year.

But we want to make clear that our commitment to the product remains unchanged and in force.

to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

Oracle comments have validated Linux in the space, and have contributed to open source. I think they are a friend of open source, and we have a good relationship with them.

Just because organizations are applying more resources to the problem doesn't mean they are compliant; for many it seems almost impossible to get a big picture view of what is happening across the enterprise.

While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will lead to cost reductions,

We've got some really great products in the identity space, in a business that is growing 12-14 percent. We see a convergence between identity and access management, and we're demonstrating market leadership with this acquisition.

We are just getting warmed up. With the increased software and hardware costs of Microsoft 's Vista , now is the time to give open source a real look.

While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated work force, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy, ... This is a decisive, yet disciplined, cost-reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

There is some functionality difference between a Microsoft thick client and a Linux desktop and many employers believe there are productivity gains to be had,

To me, it seems impossible to get a big-picture view of what is happening across the enterprise, and so this acquisition is about addressing that problem. When users get a comprehensive view of all network events across the network, they can better streamline security- and compliance-monitoring as well as cut costs through automation and build more predictable compliance programs.

the window of opportunity for migrating will be when Vista comes onto the market.

Do you really want to pay for all the excess functionality in Windows that distracts your employees and reduces their productivity?

decisive, yet disciplined, cost reduction action that balances the need to be fiscally prudent with the need to continually seek growth opportunities and generate long-term profitability in a highly competitive marketplace.

This cost restructuring initiative is part of the comprehensive transformation of Novell's business that the management team has been designing and implementing over the past year. While it is a difficult decision to eliminate positions in our talented and dedicated workforce, this move is necessary to ensure that our costs are more closely aligned with our business strategy.

The cost of migrating to Windows XP to Vista will be higher than the cost of migrating to Linux and that will push migrations to Linux.

This is a complete package, offering the platform, products and services above that, as well as our partner and support networks.