New Financing And Fewer Staff @ SuSE

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 2, 2001 @07:28AM from the keeping-on-moving dept.

jdfox writes: "According to this press release from SuSE, they have just received another 15 million Euros (about 14 million $US) venture capital, with some big names listed in the consortium's membership. They have also announced that a quarter of their 500 staff will be let go, following on from similar recent cuts. This excellent distro deserves to succeed: I hope this move will see them through the current slowdown." The upcoming release (needs babelfishing from German) of SuSE's version 7.3 promised for October 13th is loaded with a ton of goodies, too -- Kernel 2.4.10, KDE 2.2.1 and GNOME 1.4.1 beta2, among other things.

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Re:Behold, the economy... by zambro1 · 2001-10-02 07:31 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm more surprised that anyone is still willing to invest $14 million on a Linux distro...
Re:We Don't Care About SuSe Right Now!!!(joke) by Sheldon_Brown · 2001-10-02 07:55 · Score: 0, Troll

Not Osama. He's already GOT his.

Oh well. I can dream! By the way, what does this mean: "Your comment violated the postercomment compression filter. Comment aborted"?

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Re:Deserves? by Sheldon_Brown · 2001-10-02 07:58 · Score: 0, Troll

"zealotry can be a potent force for survival."

Are you talking about this guy???

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