----- Original Message ----- From: "Onward Novell India" To: "Rajesh, Coral" Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Novell acquires SUSE Linux
> Dear Sir, > > We are pleased to tell you that today Novell announced that it is > acquiring SUSE LINUX, one of the world's leading enterprise Linux > technology companies. This move is an important step toward executing > Novell's cross-platform strategy, giving our customers freedom of > choice, and eliminating the barriers to enterprise adoption of Linux. > > By adding SUSE LINUX and its products to our own Linux offerings, > Novell becomes the only major vendor to offer a full range of > industry-leading Linux solutions to its customers, from the server to > the desktop. The SUSE LINUX product line - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server > 8, SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8, SUSE LINUX Desktop, and SUSE LINUX > Openexchange Server - is, in large part, complementary to Novell and > Ximian products and solutions. We will be evaluating precisely how to > best leverage these technologies in the coming months. > > This acquisition, along with the purchase of Ximian earlier this year, > reaffirms Novell's commitment to an open source development model and > to the open source community. Our plan to offer the next version of > NetWare on both a NetWare and a Linux kernel remains in place as well. > Gaining the SUSE LINUX expertise in Linux development should enhance our > ability to make this happen. > > The bottom line is that Novell now offers all the various components of > a full Linux stack, and we do it with a world class - and worldwide - > technical support, training, consulting, sales and channel > infrastructure that knows how to work with enterprises. > > This is an exciting day for Novell and for SUSE LINUX. We encourage > you to read the complete press release at: > > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html > > Warm Regards, > > Onward Novell Software India Pvt Ltd. > www.novell.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
