Who will champion Novell’s open source strategy?

That might not come as a surprise to many of you. After all, Novell bought Suse Linux, the No. 2 Linux vendor (after rival Red Hat), in November 2003. But when I spoke to then-CTO Alan Nugent last June, he was still hesitant to fly the open source flag too high. Instead, he referred to Novell as a “hybrid source company.”