Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Putting Novell's SuSE Purchase In Perspective

Posted by timothy on from the step-back-for-a-moment dept.

An anonymous reader writes " The editors over at NewsForge.com have combined their efforts to put today's big news about Novell's purchase of SUSE in perspective: what the news means in business terms and to the Linux community, today and in the future. A good read that includes quotes from industry insiders, IRC inhabitants, and NewsForge.com readers." Another reader writes "This is a good analysis piece about how Linux has become Novell's lifeline, especially since NetWare's been dying...and post-Ximian."

3 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. QT finally does in KDE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is viewed as a negative impact on KDE and the tone of the article suggests that Gnome will become the defacto standard for Novell/Suse.. this makes a lot of sense, not only because Novell owns Ximian but because.. as the article states, they want to give a 'single target to ISV's'.

    Since RedHat is already Gnome centered..this target is and will be GTK+, which allows for third party linking without them having to pay licensing fees.. this is where the choice of QT finally comes and bites KDE... sad but true, a little ironic though... that KDE loses out because it is not friendly enough to corporate types vis-a-vis QT while Gnome will win(at least it looks like it will) because it is.

    --

  2. Why would Novell ever want to _Use_ SuSE? by essreenim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is great, I'm Irish, and I basically feel obliged to support Euro O.S.' where possible but I don't like SuSE and.... ..now I don't feel obliged to anymore.. because now their American, and they are C0RP0RAT3, booooo.... Think I'll just use Red Hat or Mandrake from now on!!!

  3. Whatever by sethadam1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God I hope someone mods you down.

    Who told Novell what to do? It is now wrong to speculate on what you'd do if you were them? Are you somehow confused by the word "should?"

    If you don't want to read this stuff, get the fuck off Slashdot. As customers, we have a right to tell companies what we want. And if they're smart, they'll listen. No one goes to a grocery story and tells customers what to buy, but you bet your goddamned ass customers tell the grocery store what to carry. And you can bet that those with a vested interest in a car dealership, like the owners, decide what to sell.

    For the record, I - the original author of the comment - maintained a NetWare 5.1 tree that had over 60 servers for a branch of the US Navy. So I think I'm entitled to a express my opinion about what Novell should do. Of course, they don't have to listen, but then, I don't have to recommend we keep Novell products either.

    Now go troll somewhere else please.