Indeed Great news! This with Novell's Ximian acquisition and their solidification of the SuSE/IBM agreements helps me believe that Novell is positioning for the long haul. I still have to overcome my Novell/UnixWare memories, but there seems to be much stronger investment here. Also, shows just how scared Novell is of the SCO suit ;)
Minos J. Ponville, Jr., Consultant ITM Consulting Phone: (225) 252-2916 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of John Hebert > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Further proof Linux is becoming mainstream was Re: > [brlug-general]Fw: [Nolug] Poor Joey > > > Agreed, this is as it should be. I take this as good news, as it proves > that an established company (Novell), will pay lots of money for a > company that "gives" away its products, in a post-boom economy. > > I hope Novell does something something good with SuSE. I don't have much > experience with Novell products, but from what I know they at least know > how to run a profitable company. SuSE has a great name for itself and > this will add to Novell's position in the IT sector. > > And besides, anything that keeps Ballmer up at night must be a good > thing, eh? ;) > > John Hebert > > Shannon Roddy wrote: > > Well, I was feeling pretty good about Sun's java desktop (AKA Mad > > Hatter) of which I ran the demo last week. It is due for release on > > Dec. 1st. However it is based on Suse and I am sure it is in some kind > > of partnership with them. I wonder now what is going to happen to it. > > > > I guess now that we have gained corporate recognition and confidence in > > Linux, Linux is now going through its "teens" and experiencing growing > > pains. > > > > Shannon > > > > Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > >> Woah. > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wimprine, Thomas" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:07 AM > >> Subject: [Nolug] Poor Joey > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> Novell is going to acquire your personal favorite distribution! > >>> Yesterday RH announced they are discontinuing support for everything > >>> > >> > >> except > >> > >> > >>> for their enterprise versions, and now this? Whatever happened to the > >>> pure > >>> Linux company? > >>> > >>> http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
