This cracks me up - especially the part about the Redmond Artistic Recycling Project.
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I’ve written an open-source workstation inventory scanner plug-in for ZENworks in C#, called zRegScan. It will scan for registry values, as well as printers, then store them in the ZENworks inventory database. I may add more functionality to this, such as scanning for listening TCP ports on the workstation (using only an administrator-defined list of ports, not scanning all ports) and USB devices.
I’m next thinking about writing a plugin using the NAL Authentication Hook to allow for software usage tracking in a database. Lots of customers are asking for this.
The idea is that when someone launches an application, an event would be raised that causes the plugin to write a row to a database table with the application name, date, time, and user. Reports could then be run for usage counts within specified time periods. Not entirely sure of the appropriate data model yet, but I think it’s a good idea.
As a Novell employee, I’ve become more or less accustomed to rumors about other companies purchasing us. Over the years, it’s been IBM, Sun, IBM, IBM, and now Sun again that are supposedly ready to acquire Novell.
Even though Sun has plenty of cash, buying Novell would be an expensive proposition when you look at what Sun thinks about our technology.
From http://news.com.com/Sun+mulls+buying+Novell/2100-7344_3-5292579.html:
“[Sun COO Jonathan] Schwartz said Novell’s non-SuSE products are ‘far less interesting.’”
Nice.
I don’t see this happening. But, as Dennis Miller says, “Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”
NOVELL: Novell Reports Financial Results for Second Fiscal Quarter 2004. For the quarter, Novell reported revenues of $294 million, compared to revenues of $276 million for the second fiscal quarter 2003. Net income in the second fiscal quarter 2004 was $10 million. After consideration of a $26 million deemed dividend related to the beneficial conversion feature of preferred stock and related preferred stock cash dividends associated with IBM’s investment in Novell, the net loss available to common shareholders was $0.04 loss per share. This compared to a net loss of $29 million, or $0.08 loss per share, for the second fiscal quarter 2003. Apparently this was short of analyst expectations, but our revenues grew year over year, and we were profitable on an operating basis. Due to IBM’s $50 million investment, we had to take a charge that made the results not look as good.
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