Novell buys SuSE!

[Matthew Carpenter]

Let's just hope Novell has lost their Reverse-Midas touch...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn L Johnston" <sjohnston at satshot.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Novell buys SuSE!


> 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
>
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