They're not dead. They're not completely useless. But some skills are well on their way to being a thing of the past, and so are the high pay rates they once commanded
Four months after acquiring SuSE Linux AG, Novell Inc. continues to hammer out the details of its open source strategy. It recently announced plans to make its GroupWise software available for the Linux operating system for the first time, and confirmed that it plans to release the source code for a popular SuSE tool for managing Linux servers to the open source community.
Novell Inc. announced recently the next version of its software for remote-office connectivity, which lets users in branch offices without IT support connect their computers to a corporate network and communicate over IP.
Faced with the reality of a steadily falling share of the network operating system market, Novell Inc. in April answered the NetWare migration question. And the answer is Linux.