Novell bought WordPerfect. At the time WP was the best wordprocessing software. Novell didn't update it, and allowed it to sink into near obscurity, as MS moved and promoted Word.
IIRC, Novell also bought PC Tools, an excellent DOS-based tuning utility program. PC Tools no longer exists.
Novell pushing Linux? Look out Linux!!!!
Fortunately for Linux, its a much larger movement than Novell. Even if Novell manages to shoot itself in the foot once again, this migration will have proved an important point. Linux will continue to live on, in spite of Novell.
No, I believe the Novell fiasco's with WP is far behind them. Norda's gone, and the new players want to win with this.
Also consider that Novell is pushing and IBM is pushing Linux and they are partners in other areas.
I'd say look out M$. 6K desktops at $200 a pop, $1.2M in savings.