Old-school SUSE executives take over Open-Xchange (Linux-Watch) [LWN.net]

Linux-Watch looks at the new management at Open-Xchange. "Rafael Laguna, who played a major role in merging SUSE with Novell, is now Open-Xchange's president and CEO. And former SUSE CEO Richard Seibt is now OX's chairman of the board. While at SUSE, Laguna and Seibt worked closely together and are widely credited for helping SUSE's transformation into one of the world's major Linux distributors."

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Posted Jan 9, 2008 13:56 UTC (Wed) by heksys (guest, #41569) [Link]

What the hell does you peoples comments have to do with this news, you people have way to much
time in you're hands.