| Novell looks to Linux for a lifeline |
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It's official: All mentions of Novell must now, once again, be preceded by the adjective "beleaguered."
The storied software company won a pass from such ominous epithets for the last few years by buying open-source startups Ximian and Suse Linux. It announced bold plans to embrace open source starting in 2004. At the time Novell's strategy was to combine its NetWare operating system with Linux to compete with Microsoft's (Research) dominant Windows operating system.
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