Internet的出现,使得整个世界进入到了一个以快速变化为根本特征的年代。企业的成功与失败、兴盛与衰亡,都只不过是转瞬之间发生的事,变化成为了唯一不变的事实。所有的企业在这样的一个年代里,都不得不为自己的继续生存不断寻找全新的基础,即使像Novell这样的曾经极为成功的公司也同样如此。在网络发展的早期阶段,作为网络操作系统提供商的Novell,曾经有 The advent of the Internet has brought the entire world into an era characterized by rapid changes. The success and failure of enterprises, the rise and fall, are nothing but instantaneous changes that have become the only constant facts. All of these companies in such an era have to constantly find new foundations for their continued survival, even for once-so-successful companies like Novell. In the early stages of network development, Novell, a network operating system provider, used to have it