Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 17:02 -0500, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> > < rant>
> > This is not good news at all. I've never been extremely fond of the
> > SuSE offering, but there needs to be a competitor for Red Hat,
> > otherwise the future of Linux may well be controlled by one entity
> > which has already demonstrated that it has the needs of mega
> > commercial users and its own bottom line firmly in sight.
> > </rant>
> 
> While i agree that RH needs competition, i don't see anything wrong with
> RH focusing on 'mega commercial users' and its own bottom line.  Clearly
> that is a business plan that works.  SuSE doesn't seem to have such a
> plan.  And Fedora Core focuses on the non-mega commerical user quite
> nicely, in my opinion.

I have not read the announcement (I know...), but Novell is a big
company. Is the decreased earnings and all due to the Linux unit, or the
other parts of Novell? Of course, it effects the whole company no
matter. 


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>