James Romer

Manchester

Network Analyst

Another example of poor misguided IT management.
Novell have the best products as we know but all too often IT managers take the "safe" option, as you do not get fired for choosing Microsoft. You do however increase operating and admin costs, and lower your ability to adapt to techinical changes within the IT world. This IT manager really needs to think long and hard about limiting a large educational university to one supplier. Surely educational innstitutions should be embracing open source.
As for Lynx consultants, any technical consultants who are "recommending" inferior products are clearly only in it to take the money and do not care about the solution.
Linux is providing some of the most innovative and exciting changes to the NOS framework for a long time, and coupled with the best directory services solution, messaging suite collabaration and desktop management products to name but a few, Novell have the best solution by far.

I wish Coventry Uni luck, they will certainly need it. I hope they quickly realise the mistake they are making.