Novell buys SuSE!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I have been curious what this means for the Ximian desktop. Novell also
bought them. Perhaps a merging of the two? Does this mean SuSE will
become more Gnome-ish? That would be too bad, IMHO. But I would love to
see Evolution grow. Maybe not crash all the time when connecting to an
Outhouse server. The irony is that the one part of Evolution I have
actually paid for is the one part that does not work. The rest I like
very much. Bumped Sylpheed of the desk...


On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:11, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> 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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