Novell Announces Executive Departure [LWN.net]

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 9, 2005 19:15 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
Parent article: Novell Announces Executive Departure

Hmmm. Chris Stone, who was instrumental to Novell's shift to a Linux based stategy suddenly resigned a while back to "spend more time with his family". Now Seibt, former leader of Suse suddenly resigns with no reason given.

What's going on over there, I wonder?

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Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 9, 2005 20:01 UTC (Mon) by yuk (guest, #29782) [Link] (1 responses)

Nothing other than the usual downward Novell death-spiral still continuing....

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 9, 2005 20:17 UTC (Mon) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

Lets just hope this doesn't turn out to be a sequal to the whole SCO debacle.

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 9, 2005 23:38 UTC (Mon) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

the sooner Suse splits from Novell the better , I dont trust them as far as i can throw them never have done never will do .

Suse has gotten more bugs/problems since the arrival of Novell.

Maybe his options vested....

Posted May 10, 2005 6:40 UTC (Tue) by davidw (guest, #947) [Link]

Sometimes after acquisitions, the motivation is gone, and the money has arrived by the truckload. I know what I'd do... :-)

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 10, 2005 12:22 UTC (Tue) by louie (guest, #3285) [Link] (1 responses)

It's worth noting that the entire Ximian executive team is still there. Several have been extensively promoted, even, so that Ximian people are now responsible for the engineering efforts behind all of Novell's profitable products- David Patrick is in charge of "Linux, Open Source, and Platform Services", which includes the profitable Groupwise stuff and all Linux/Free Software projects (including SUSE) and Carlos Montero-Luque is VP- Technology for the group that includes Zenworks and their identity management stuff. (Notably, both of those guys have been in the Linux space for a couple of years before Ximian was acquired; I believe Seibt had been at suse something like 9 months when the acquisition talks started.) The vast majority of the engineering groups of both companies are still at Novell.* It is also worth noting that Seibt was purely in the sales organization at Novell, from day one after their acquisition- he had no formal management role in engineering, marketing, or project/product management, so... anyway, make of that what you will :)

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 10, 2005 12:44 UTC (Tue) by louie (guest, #3285) [Link]

BTW, after surfing the web a bit, this seems like the most informative and balanced article I've seen.

Novell Announces Executive Departure

Posted May 10, 2005 14:45 UTC (Tue) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link]

Just sounds like the usual "one year after acquisition" departures to me. By that point you either know if you are going to be part of the new team (rare) or not, so you make your choice.

sPh