anybody care to guess?

[Burns MacDonald]

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 22:04, dep wrote:
> joint announcement thursday from suse, turbo, caldera, and conectiva:
>
> http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=77
>
> *everybody* is being *really* tight-lipped. guesses?

I'm surprised at SuSE's participation. They have a huge market presence in 
Europ and they are developing a growing market base in North America (mainly 
due to the quality of their product) despite a near complete lack of 
representation on this continent. They also have a very strong relationship 
with  IBM.  I can see the other three, frankly they are grasping at straws  - 
especially the former Linux company, Caldera. 

This is undoubtedly (as it says) related to LSB... perhaps they have decided 
to cooperate further and expand the common baseline to minimize development 
costs and effort. There is still a lot that can be done in the regard to 
provide a common framework which still allows a distro personality to be 
integrated in the higher layers. If this is the way that they are going, then 
I would expect a division of effort, with each company taking on an area 
which they would be responsible for developing as their contribution. 

The real question is how significant is the pending announcement and how much 
is hype?

-- 
burns