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Novell Buys Ximian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-cage-full-of-monkeys dept.

Quite a number of people have been submitting the news that Ximian has been purchased by Novell. All I've found so far is the press release linked to above; more links as they come in. Looks like Nat & Miguel will be remaining around, and Novell's continuing to expand its Open Source commitments. Update: 08/04 17:30 GMT by S : viewstyle writes "According to an interview with Ximian's CTO Miguel de Icaza at Eweek.com, Ximian won't be affected at all by Novell's buyout, and will be shipping a PowerPC version of Mono (preview release in Sept)."

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  1. What an embarassment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An promising up-and-comer bought out by a wrinkled old has-been. Oh the humanity. What's their plan?

  2. It's all over for Ximian by jmischel · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    Let's recap some of Novell's previous purchases:

    Wordperfect - barely breathing
    Quattro Pro - dead
    Paradox - dead
    DR-DOS - dead?

    Novell, a company whose mission for the past 15 years seems to have been "Buy Microsoft's competition and run it into the ground" has purchased one of the few Linux desktops that could potentially give Microsoft a run for its money.

    Might as well cede the desktop to Microsoft.

  3. Re:Good News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ximian isn't dying technology. Ximian is stillborn technology.

    They took an existing desktop environment, then changed it. They preached open source, then sold a closed binary plugin for their open-sourced mail client.

    Stillborn. This is something Novel won't kill.

  4. Re:Ximian has annoucment by Tet · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It seems to me they're trying to eliminate Windows from the enterprise desktop, as well as the server end.

    <sarcasm>

    Becasue obviously they've been really successful at doing that...

    </sarcasm>

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  5. Re:Wha...? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can't compare mormons to Catholics. Mormonism is much more prevalent in its members' lives...controlling the lives in fact. I lived in UT for several years and mormonism pervades everything, affecting even non-mormons' lives. The upside was that when I went skiing on Sunday the slopes were relatively free.

    Mormonism is just one step from scientology on the "whacked" scale. How people don't see it's a made up religion I don't know...

    In any case, go shop for your favorite Novell employee here or here :)

  6. Re:Dang, you're going to need another example (-: by leonbrooks · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You are leaving out mutation.

    I include mutation. Expecting that to add structure is like expecting to be able to add structure to Lego with an assult rifle.

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