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Novell & SUSE In Link Up?

Posted by Hemos on from the potential-merger dept.

dmorelli writes "Since it seems to be a SuSE news day, here's something from Friday this past. Novell tried and failed to buy SuSE, according to the Linux Business week story."

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  1. Re:Conflict of interest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, what a horrible thing that would be, if a state governing body had a vested interest in the financial success of one of the companies that they themselves are a potential customer of.

  2. Re:Conflict of interest? by vlad_petric · · Score: 5, Insightful
    How about M$ buying its way out of the antitrust trial through the 2000 elections ? Isn't that a conflict of interests as well? It's certainly a more disgusting one.

    I'm certainly not for State ownership, but it seems to me that in the US the companies are owning the state (and the only thing that changes when Democrats and Republicans replace each other is the dominant industry).

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  3. Re:Novell's next choice - Mandrake! by Havokmon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why not?

    No kidding. MS has a half-hearted desktop and a shitty server that's nothing more than the desktop with multi-user perms - but they DO integrate better than any other desktop/server combination.

    If Novell bought Mandrake, they'd have an awesome desktop to ship, and integrate, with their Netware 7 Linux product.

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