Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 05, 2003 01:57 PM
That may not be the case. I suspect this is partically a marketing move to get a larger share of european market. Most companies would rather support a "local" company than one that is foreign.
This move was also to help change the perception of Novell too. In the past Novell has been thought as aging and stagnat software. By joining with SuSE, Novell hopes to change the view of its software as being current.
On the technology front I think this was a good move for both SuSE and Novell. This will give Novell the linux expertise and a standard software platform for development. Novell then just has to make small changes to support the other distros. SuSE also gains access to more business in the corperate field. This will eventually allow other linux distros greater access to the corperate market. The only possible looser I see in this merger is the opensource community. It depends how many of the tools and applications are released to the opensource community. While I don't expect all of them will be released, I would like to see some. Only time will tell.
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Re:Proprietary Software
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 05, 2003 01:57 PMThat may not be the case. I suspect this is partically a marketing move to get a larger share of european market. Most companies would rather support a "local" company than one that is foreign.
This move was also to help change the perception of Novell too. In the past Novell has been thought as aging and stagnat software. By joining with SuSE, Novell hopes to change the view of its software as being current.
On the technology front I think this was a good move for both SuSE and Novell. This will give Novell the linux expertise and a standard software platform for development. Novell then just has to make small changes to support the other distros. SuSE also gains access to more business in the corperate field. This will eventually allow other linux distros greater access to the corperate market. The only possible looser I see in this merger is the opensource community. It depends how many of the tools and applications are released to the opensource community. While I don't expect all of them will be released, I would like to see some. Only time will tell.
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