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Novell may be passionately evangelising open source software on the desktop but more than half of its own employees can still boot Windows and Office if they wish.
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Many IT professionals have recently begun to ask, "What's Novell doing with Linux?" A better question at this point might be what isn't Novell doing with Linux and open source software.
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