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Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire SUSE

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the making-a-play dept.

Mickey Hill writes "Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world's leading enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell's ability to provide enterprise-class services and support on the Linux platform. Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004). This latest move follows Novell's August purchase of Ximian."

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  1. Agreement details by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently, the Novell CEO upon signing the agreement burst out into song: "Suse-Q, baby I love you, Suse-Q".

    It really happened - I swear.

    1. Re:Agreement details by Treacle+Treatment · · Score: 1, Funny

      In other news: Dr. Suse gave Novell a clean bill of health but recommended a change of diet to Green Eggs And Ham.

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  2. Re:First p0st! by RossyB · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, Novell bought SuSe to destroy KDE so that GNOME can win.

    GNOME FOREVER!

  3. Good. by jon787 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now SCO can sue the company that sold them UNIX.

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  4. The pressing issue: by curtisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    will Novell make their SuSE distro contain the infamous PHASERS.WAV and the FIRE PHASERS as part of the login?

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    Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!

  5. Re:The Wedge Gets Deeper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a pity they didn't buy SCO as well. Then we could have had Suse LinuxWare :-)

  6. Re:No RedHat 10 and now SuSE aquired by Novell? by bahamat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I know, Fedora. However, Fedora is NOT
    RedHat Linux. Even though it is under the hood,
    the PHB's of the world won't see it that way
    without massive re-education.

    That's an easy one to overcome. "Oh, Fedora is the new name for RedHat Linux. You know, just like how it was Windows NT, then 2000, then XP, and now Longhorn? Yea..."

  7. Re:Great timing with respect to Red Hat moves by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hope Suse is repackaged into the the red and white Novell style

    Well I guess it won't be worse than their trademark snot-green :-)

  8. the real question is... by Theolojin · · Score: 3, Funny

    will the new company be NoSE or NOSE?

    sorry...

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