Many IT professionals are no longer approaching Novell for training in their products and now appear to be turning to competitors such as Microsoft and Unix and this could also be seen as a sign for less demand being made for Novells traditional networking products.

Previously Novell had around 17% marketshare of the training market and recently this has slumped down to around 5%, owing to the changes in the market. In an attempt to combat this turnaround, Novell have introduced Advanced Solution Training, which is a course designed around the Novell Net Services products, but as yet it still has a long way to go.

Novell are still seen by many IT professionals as the pioneers of the networking era and many of the previous training courses are classed as the foundation upon which networking professionals should base their knowledge around, therefore experts state that time should be given towards their new net services strategy as it be a useful tool towards solid and reliable network implementation for the future.