Novell vows to keep fighting Microsoft 'juggernaut'
We're excited by the muted reaction to Vista," Ron Hovsepian, Novell's chief executive, told the media at a meeting here Thursday. "We're going to attack (Microsoft) vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can."
Microsoft's Vista was five years in the making, so the code behind it is very complex, Hovsepian said, whereas open source is more nimble and flexible. "And we have got to take advantage of that."