Novell to acquire Suse

[Bill Sconce]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:51:32 -0500
Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:40, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> >  http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.html
> 
> This is pretty interesting. Now couple this with Red Hat's announcement
> yesterday that they were discontinuing the ordinary Red Hat Linux
> distribution and only selling the enterprise package. That particular
> announcement had left me thinking that maybe SuSe would be a good
> choice for the distribution to switch to.
> 
> It seems like the only distribution not in turmoil lately is Debian
> and they are just really really slow. (I know, they like to
> say they're 'stable'.)


And better than just Debian (because of value added, integration, up-to-
dateness); well worth paying for a CDROM:

   Libranet.



 
> I guess we live in interesting times...

No doubt.  The last chapter in the chaotic story of "Linux distro as
business model" has yet to be written.

-Bill