>From what I've read, its put Novell in the position where they are able to offer viable solutions to both the server and desktop market. It also gives SUSE the global opportunities that it was previously unable to get hold of due to Redhat's "apparent" dominance in the market outside of Europe.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1147952 for those of you who don't receive IT Week. Personally, I feel Novell have realised they've got a real problem with current offerings and are looking to provide totally alternative solutions to customers by offering completely non-windows based products. (If they don't run windows, they won't be tempted by Active Directory being the psyche methinketh) Darren -----Original Message----- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 November 2003 21:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] Novell buy Suse Hi All, Much as I disklike the largely irrelevant business tittle tattling of IT company A buys/sues company B, this one rather caught my interest.... http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/novell_suse.ht ml Perhaps their just implementing the continuing Ray Noorda business plan to eradicate all forms of *nix. Or maybe they think now is a good time to be pushing Linux on corporate desktops.... Enough conjecture. Make your own minds up. Do we have a speaker for this month's meet? Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies, and you are prohibited from retaining, distributing, disclosing or using any information contained herein. Please inform us of the erroneous delivery by return e-mail. Thank you for your co-operation. Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority and is a member of the General Insurance Standards Council. Registered in England No. 984275. Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
