On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > That's interesting news, Phil. Rumor among some stockbroker friends of > mine is that Novell is going to be split into two separate companies and > then sold off to investor groups. > > DJ > > On 9/17/2010 8:30 AM, Tully, Phil wrote: >> >> I saw this on Slashdot today: "According to the Wall Street Journal, >> VMware is attempting to acquire Novell's SUSE Linux operating system >> business. This move would give VMware a full stack of enterprise >> >> software<http://blogs.gartner.com/chris-wolf/2010/09/16/vmware-novell-suse-acquisition-rumors-why-it-makes-sense/> >> and allow it to establish itself as a full-blown infrastructure and >> software >> vendor<http://blogs.computerworld.com/16978/vmware_is_buying_novell> >> in direct competition with Red Hat." >> >> >> >> Phil Tully Desk: 973-974-6141 Cell: 973-202-7427 Email: >> [email protected] >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello! That's been playing all over the Internet for the better part of a year, regarding Novell and its investors. However Phil please don't take any definite belief in Slashdot, the site is famous all over the place for deliberately miss-representing reality via scuttlebutt. A lot of its names there refused to believe that Linux would become mainstream and an incredibly big business vehicle, say about the size of the mammoth dump trucks used on specialty construction sites. And indeed the hosting entity for them was famous for indeed starting 75 percent of that. Naturally look where we've ended up within the past ten years.... (Say? It's definitely a Friday.) ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
