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With approximately $1.7 billion cash reserve and being ranked upon as one of the 25 most profitable organizations wont save it for long, Novell has to realize that Open Source will not make the cash register ringing at this rate for years. Novell knows this, or for that matter its CEO, Jack Messman, believes in taking this company forward with services like identity management, security and systems management. All these and much more, however, can not stop this firm sending outsourcing jobs to India.

Former Novell alumnus writes

Novell has been moving much of its Groupwise and other Workgroup development to India for some time, so today's news that the company has laid off 250 US workers is not a big surprise. What is, however, is how the company is whittling down its Provo, Utah operations, as it has for the past few years.

Once management moved to Boston, it was just a matter of time until management would want to bring the company with it. While I was at Novell, I watched the Waltham office grow while the Utah office shrank little by (very) little.

It's a shame as Novell has a great engineering team, much of which is based in Utah. It has simply lost its way at times on market trends, execution, and product management.

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