KDE vs GNOME
Posted Nov 5, 2003 8:13 UTC (Wed) by
hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to:
KDE vs GNOME by mdekkers
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On Novell's acquisition of SUSE
I can almost guarantee you that Novell will go with a merge of Ximian technology (read:
GNOME) as opposed to maintaining support for KDE. Think about the events so far, and you
will realise that there are few other options.
They now own Ximian, and thus some of the key GNOME development force. That means they
mainly own the desktop - the connector isn't very good since it does stuff the wrong way
around, and the red carpet stuff can't hold a torch to the kind of management environment
SUSE brings to the table. For those who not witnessed the awesome powers of SUSE's
management framework: it blows anything out of the water. So that leaves only the desktop
stuff as the key strategic asset that Novell owns in Ximian.
The No 1 reason to buy Ximian was certainly Mono. No 2 was Evolution and No 3 Red Carpet,
or the other way around.
SUSE on the other hand has just sold *KDE* to Munich for 32 million and will do so again
and again when other german cities and the government catch up. They are not going to
abandon KDE.
But other than that, you are right. Ximian is *the* company behind GNOME, I doubt they will
abandon that either.
Right now the official party line seems to be, that they will actively continue to support all
projects they have bought themselves into: "Novell is firmly committed to open standards and
maintaining the existing open source kernel development efforts. From advocacy and
development resources to events and support of open source efforts like kernel projects,
XFree86, ReiserFS, KDE, GNOME and Mono, Novell stands side-by-side with the open source
community. " (From the press release).
henrik
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