From all the articles I've read on this, it's looking like they are cleaning house on the Novell side for people that can't/won't learn linux. Novell as an OS is dead as fried chicken and has been for many years. Yes, it's stable, but so is anything you don't touch, save windows.
This isn't something to worry about. Their linux business will pick up steam and their novell piece will die off. It's hard to change, but they have to do it. IBM was the first to the bag with this change, and they've layed off a whole city full of people- but hired on more linux folks in counter-balance. The services they are selling and full support of linux are driving them now.
It needs to be done, in short. I think even Novell OS gurus will agree with that. Suse has a solid product line and I've bought every one of their OS's since 9.1. When they opened Yast, as I recall. Their enterprise server/clients are getting there but I haven't seen a total end to end package yet. Maybe that's marketing- maybe reality- I don't know.
In the end, I would go whole hog with Suse or Redhat, but in my case I have vertical market windows applications holding me back. Where I can, I go linux(Suse in particluar). Where I can't, I go windows/citrix so that I can use linux on the client. As vertical application programmers start moving cross-platform to linux, Suse's and in general linux vendors numbers will reach critical mass in the enterprise.
This is just a lull before the storm. Don't get all teary eyed just yet. This is just opportunity for the soon to be laid off Novell people. Once they get their Linux badge, they'll be able to go to any large or small vendor they want to gain employment- if Novell leaves them with a sour taste. All respect to the people affected by this. I know it's a big hit when a company dumps it's namesake for a "new" technology.
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Posted by: ThoreauHD on October 23, 2005 08:14 PMThis isn't something to worry about. Their linux business will pick up steam and their novell piece will die off. It's hard to change, but they have to do it. IBM was the first to the bag with this change, and they've layed off a whole city full of people- but hired on more linux folks in counter-balance. The services they are selling and full support of linux are driving them now.
It needs to be done, in short. I think even Novell OS gurus will agree with that. Suse has a solid product line and I've bought every one of their OS's since 9.1. When they opened Yast, as I recall. Their enterprise server/clients are getting there but I haven't seen a total end to end package yet. Maybe that's marketing- maybe reality- I don't know.
In the end, I would go whole hog with Suse or Redhat, but in my case I have vertical market windows applications holding me back. Where I can, I go linux(Suse in particluar). Where I can't, I go windows/citrix so that I can use linux on the client. As vertical application programmers start moving cross-platform to linux, Suse's and in general linux vendors numbers will reach critical mass in the enterprise.
This is just a lull before the storm. Don't get all teary eyed just yet. This is just opportunity for the soon to be laid off Novell people. Once they get their Linux badge, they'll be able to go to any large or small vendor they want to gain employment- if Novell leaves them with a sour taste. All respect to the people affected by this. I know it's a big hit when a company dumps it's namesake for a "new" technology.
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