Novell to acquire Suse

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

The thing that's got me confused is... what's Novell planning on doing? 
First Ximian, now SuSE -- where are they going?  Are they trying to be a
Linux powerhouse?  If so, why?  What do they intend to do with Netware? 
Maybe an attempt to coalesce them?  Or is this yet another in a long
string of bizarre Novell mismanagement (anyone remember when they acquired
Word Perfect?  Or even when the acquired Unix(tm)?).

Just some idle ramblings.

-Ken

> 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'.)
>
> I guess we live in interesting times...
>
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