Re: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSourceCommitment

2003-08-14 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I still gotta believe this is partly Novell working to get inroads into the OSS community. It could be a win-win... or it could just mean that Ximian gets spun off again... Hopefully NOT in such a way as Ximian could turn around, get bought and then make our lives miserable with FUD galore...

Re: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSourceCommitment

2003-08-04 Thread Net Llama!
Its Novell's dying breath, attempting to find relevancy in a world where fileservers are ubiquitous. On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Federico Voges wrote: http://www.ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/index.html?pr =novell Now the question: is this good?? :) Federico Voges Socio

Re: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSourceCommitment

2003-08-04 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:24:51 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its Novell's dying breath, attempting to find relevancy in a world where fileservers are ubiquitous. Maybe not. Novell has a good groupware solution. If they put

Re: Novell Acquires Ximian to Expand Linux Solutions and OpenSourceCommitment

2003-08-04 Thread Aaron Grewell
Sounds the same as our good friends at SCOdera. Of course Caldera did have its birth from a bunch of breakaways at Novell. With one major diff: Novell knows (won't say out loud, but knows) that NetWare is dead. The only question is whether or not they can shift NetWare's services to Linux