Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 06, 2003 11:48 AM
>> They will give Linux a lot of credibility >> in the boardroom
Much like they did with WordPerfect. Novell is the kiss of death for SuSE. SuSE will lose all of it's autonomy, and will not be able to react like an agile Company any longer.
Novell will be big, fat and slow to change and the other distro's (Xandros, RedHat and yes even Fedora) will surpass it in functionality.
I used to like Novell, but I've watched them, for years, flounder and make really dumb decisions. I don't trust them as an intelligent Company any longer and view this with an anticipation of failure.
Obviously IBM disagrees with me...and for the sake of the success of Linux I too hope I'm wrong, but history has a way of repeating itself.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 06, 2003 11:48 AM>> in the boardroom
Much like they did with WordPerfect. Novell is the kiss of death for SuSE. SuSE will lose all of it's autonomy, and will not be able to react like an agile Company any longer.
Novell will be big, fat and slow to change and the other distro's (Xandros, RedHat and yes even Fedora) will surpass it in functionality.
I used to like Novell, but I've watched them, for years, flounder and make really dumb decisions. I don't trust them as an intelligent Company any longer and view this with an anticipation of failure.
Obviously IBM disagrees with me...and for the sake of the success of Linux I too hope I'm wrong, but history has a way of repeating itself.
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