Novell buys SuSE!

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:16, Collins Richey wrote:

> There are only two possibilities - Novel/SUSE will become a dominent player in
> the linux marketplace, or they'll go under.  I'm betting on the former.

I agree. I think this is a good thing for both SuSE and Novell.
Commercial linux needs a good buisness backbone and hopefully Novell can
provide this since its obvious that Sun is never going to truly step up
to the plate. SuSE has good products but horrible Sales people and
marginal support services. Red Hat doesn't even bother with sales
people. 

Novell in contrast too Red Hat and SuSE has very responsive sales folks
and while somewhat of a behemoth their web based support has excellant
documentation. Novell needs to do something new with their buisness
though and with their purchase of SilverStream last year and Ximian and
SuSE this year it looks like they are going to try something new.


Shawn