I disagree with you that novell is dead. I have worked with Active Directory and it has a long way to go to compare to NDS. It has been said that Microsoft themselves do not operate under there own os for there data critacal system’s. Of course I dont know how true that statment is. But, it does bring questions to the public why? I do agree that Linux is making a very large impression on the industry. In my opinion Linux will eventully take a very large market away from Microsoft and Novell. They will not be able to compete with the stability and best of all the open sorce code. I guess will just have to wait and see