Labor Day writes finis to summer and the roof falls in: we don’t expect to have to put a second front page on page two on a Friday, but stuff kept pouring in all day, and Novell Inc contributed a deluge with announcement to analysts of its reorganisation plans and strategy: the hot news is that Novell wants to get into the fun-and-games business – but it didn’t say much about that; AppWare, which sounded a good product, is dead – de-emphasised is the euphemism – not our business, says Novell, and DR DOS will not be developed further; UnixWare Personal Edition is not a large market; NetWare Distributed Management Services will be a big focus, enabling users to run everything from a single management console; Wordperfect’s Perfect Office suite will be NetWare enabled; lots more should emerge in a few days.
