Everyone seems to have given up on software company Novell. In the early 1990s, the company held as much as 75 percent of the market share for server operating systems with its Netware application. But when Microsoft started making inroads with Windows NT, it tried to beat Microsoft at its own game by purchasing Word Perfect, among other things, instead of concentrating on its core strengths.And trying to beat Microsoft at its own game "is just something you just don't do [when] you don't have the brand name recognition and visibility of a Microsoft," Laura DiDio, director of desktop and server operating systems for Giga Information Group, told NewsFactor Network.
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