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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."

5 of 672 comments (clear)

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

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

    GNOME FOREVER!

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

    Now SCO can sue the company that sold them UNIX.

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  3. 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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  4. 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..."

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

    will the new company be NoSE or NOSE?

    sorry...

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