deseretnews.com | Novell regaining prior glory: "Is it too late (or too early) to say that Novell 'is back?'
Perhaps the jury is still out, but there's no question that the software company has at least regained some of its prior glory and relevance in technology circles.
Last week Novell hosted some 6,000 of its closest friends and adherents at the 20th annual BrainShare conference held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City.
As I mentioned in last week's column, this is not a confab for those with a weak pocketbook as the entry fees started at $1,795 per person.
Nevertheless, programmers, developers, integrators and administrators from around the world descended upon the City of Salt for a chance to learn the latest from the self-proclaimed king of the OneNet - enough so that Novell nearly broke even on the event - but more on that later.
As outlined in this column and elsewhere, during the past 12-plus months Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) has made a concerted effort to work itself back into prominence by casting its lot with what is known as the Open Source community.
For you non-geeks out there, source code refers to the underlying software inside any application that actually defines what it is a program is capable of doing. In this sense, source code is somewhat akin to the engine under the hood of your car."