Novell acquires SUSE [LWN.net]

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 14:32 UTC (Tue) by sphealey (guest, #1028)
Parent article: Novell acquires SUSE

I have always liked Novell technology, despite its quirks and flaws. And back in the day no technology supplier gave its customers better support than Novell.

Vs. Microsoft this is a tricky move, because I think even the Bush Justice Dept would look very hard at Microsoft entering the Linux market.

But historically, Novell has thrown away every technology and market advantage they have ever held, and handed their business on a silver platter to Microsoft (and maybe Sun). So does this mean Novell will now screw up SuSE, whose distribution I like a lot?

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Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 14:54 UTC (Tue) by AAP (guest, #721) [Link]

I have similar concerns. Of the Big 3, SuSe is the one I'm most likely to recommend to home users. Especially since RedHat seems to be leaving the non-corporate market.

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 15:03 UTC (Tue) by haraldt (guest, #961) [Link]

Or, Novell has seen it as a business strategy to make different operating system interact. Second fiddle to anyone who might like to play first is still an important position.

But perhaps Novell sees Linux as an important piece of glue in itself?

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 17:53 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

"Vs. Microsoft this is a tricky move, because I think even the Bush Justice Dept would look very hard at Microsoft entering the Linux market."

Microsoft is not goimg to enter the Linux Market. They will resort to the usual tricks with inhouse stuff...
Try to "embrace and extend" the WEB with a new proprietary language XAML, that will serve as a IDL(interface defining language) for the intire Desktop;..., something like mozilla XUL, (goodbye Win32API) but with the forcing power of the monopoly OS...
(and they call it innovation!!!... What about OS/400, the Mozilla XUL, or the OS2 previous IDL???)

http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=639
http://draginol.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=622
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1368535,00.asp

...and also will try to make a major lock in, by DRM technologies,... and that will be fundamentaly contrary to Linux and the GPL that governs it... so no M$ Linux...

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1371599,00.asp
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/1430214&mode=thread&tid=137&threshold=1
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

"So does this mean Novell will now screw up SuSE, whose distribution I like a lot?"

Well, they must think they have renewed themselfs, but managing diferent things like Ximian, SUSE and ancient Netware, aint gonna be easy!