Novell Buys Ximian

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 4, 2003 @01:32AM 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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It's all over for Ximian by jmischel · 2003-08-04 01:38 · 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.