Re: [OT] Novell to Aquire SUSE

[Jack Aboutboul <jaboutboul speakeasy net>]

On Nov 4, 2003, at 14:17, Gord Busse wrote:

> Someone had mentioned something on this list earlier about Novell. Well
> I just happened across this press release. Apparently Novell it taking
> Linux VERY seriously.
>
> http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html
	Well, back to the original topic of this thread.  Novell is definitely 
trying to regroup and ascend up the ladder like they once did.  They 
just needed a viable platform and chose linux.  Their new focus is 
certainly to target the corporate desktop and hence, they made a wise 
move by acquiring Ximian. Now I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Novell 
needed a quality distro to base their desktop stuff on and hence chose 
SuSe.
	I'm fairly certain that the SuSe idea was miguel's brainchild, being 
that Novell wouldnt be able to buyout RH and many ximian hackers are 
fond of SuSe.
	The recent action going down seems to be signifying the rise of the 
tech markets again. I think Fedora has spawned this whole chain of 
linux related happenings. I also think that SuSe was hoping that this 
news would come out after FC1 so that they could steal the press 
thunder away from RH but it looks like this 'respin' has done more good 
than originally intended.

Thoughts?
Jack