Novell Survey: Status Update

Novell Cool Solutions: Trench
By Scott M. Morris

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 27 Feb 2006

While over 15,000 people have responded to the survey, the submissions still pour in daily. I've also generated a report in PDF format so that you can see the overall results to date of the survey.

For everyone who hasn't yet seen it, Stephen Feller has written an article on NewsForge.com in regards to the survey. He contacted Richard Holder and myself to conduct with us a phone interview. We had an insightful and interesting phone conversation with Stephen. His article is informative and insightful. He had some great questions for us.

Jon Strickland, President of the Triangle Novell Users' Group, sent in a great tip. He suggested that we provide links to various online sources where readers can promote CoolSolutions Articles. That suggestion has now been implemented. From now on, you will find links above each article where you can submit the article to various news sites online. This will allow the articles to be seen by more readers. Thus, we can reach out to more and more people each week. Also, because of this suggestion, I have awarded Jon 150 points.

Remember to have your colleagues and friends vote on the survey. The more votes we recieve, the more the vendors will listen to us.

Also, much mention has been made about the fact that Lotus Notes currently runs on Linux. However, this appears to be a Java application. A more native port is on the way, it seems. Thanks to everyone who brought these things to my attention.

Reader Comments

• Useless. The REPORT DOES NOT WORK. It is a invalid PDF. I try to open it in my browser (FireFox running SuSE 10.0) and it just sits there with a blank page. I download the report (from the link) and save it. I open it and I get an error saying the file is invalid. THIS PAGE IS USELESS. It should get a ranking of ZERO but 1 is the lowest I can select.
• It's great to have some updated stats. btw the pdf works great...
• My experience with the PDF is different from that of an earlier poster. I, too, am running SuSE Linux 10.0, on which I have installed KDE 3.5.0a (unsupported), Firefox 1.5.0.1, and Adobe Reader 7.0.5. If I attempt to open the PDF within the browser, I get an immediate crash of the browser. The results are the same if I attempt to view other PDFs within the browser. However, if I download the file I can view it with no problem using KGhostView .020, KPDF 0.5, or Adobe Reader 7.0.5. I rarely open PDFs within the browser (this is the first time I knew I had a problem). I don't plan to waste time sorting things out since I'll be upgrading hardware as soon as SuSE 10.1 is released.
• Thanks for the update, PDF work's perfect.

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