“My knowledge of Netware from version 2.x on made my career.”
And I’ve been on every version since, and now I’m doing migrations involving Novell products.
Novell had great products and a very loyal following in the techie community. That is the only explanation one can have as Novell survived a ton of really bad corporate decisions.
For instance — did you know that Microsoft tried to buy rights to eDirectory back in 2000?