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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Re:I wonder... by lovebyte · 2003-08-04 01:51 · Score: 2, Troll

SCO, Novell and Canopy group, all have (at least) one person in common: Ray Noorda

He is/has been:
founder of Caldera
Chairman of Novell
Founder of Canopy group

Moreover, the mormon Church is involved somewhere there too (3 in SCO's board are mormon). What does that mean? I have no idea.

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