Novell acquires SUSE

Novell acquires SUSE

Posted Nov 4, 2003 21:01 UTC (Tue) by rise (subscriber, #5045)
In reply to: Novell acquires SUSE by ordonnateur
Parent article: Novell acquires SUSE

Actually IBM is a lot closer to SuSE than Red Hat, especially at the very high end - mainframes and the largest Unix servers.  Among other things the Common Criteria EAL2+ security certification was a joint effort between them.  I doubt IBM could acquire Novell without severe antitrust concerns, but working tightly together to try eat Sun and HP's lunch and keep MS from gaining too much ground in the enterprise would be right up their alley.  IBM builds hardware and does services (where they make most of their money), Novell does software, distro and services for them.  They'll still compete in some areas, but working together to get a shared platform into accounts will benefit them both.  Novell's fallen a long way, but they successfully kicked Microsoft's ass on Windows for years.

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