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Novell's Chris Stone at the MySQL Users Conference

Posted by timothy on from the rumor-has-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the MySQL User's Conference page, Chris Stone of Novell, the guy behind Open Source at Novell who was responsible for the purchase of SUSE and Ximian, will be speaking at the MySQL conference. Perhaps we finally get to see what Novell is planning to do with Linux?" (That conference is taking place in mid-April, in Orlando.)

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  1. Developments for OSS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can't wait to what Novell does after they've gathered all of this knowledge and all of these developers to their helm. Maybe offer an Open Source replacement for Active Directory?

  2. Innovations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can't wait to what Novell does after they've gathered all of this knowledge and all of these developers to their helm. Maybe offer an Open Source replacement for Active Directory.

  3. Can't wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can't wait to what Novell does after they've gathered all of this knowledge and all of these developers to their helm. Maybe offer an Open Source replacement for Active Directory??

  4. What will they have for us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can't wait to what Novell does after they've gathered all of this knowledge and all of these developers to their helm. Maybe offer an Open Source replacement for Active Directory???

    1. Re:What will they have for us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

      I wouldn't hold your breath. Novell is a proprietary company. Notice they didn't purchase Red Hat an open source company, who has adhered strictly to the open source philosophy e.g. not even including mp3 capability with XMMS. Novell purchased Suse, who still keeps Yast nice and proprietary. I see two proprietary companies taking what they can, but to some extent not wanting to share completely with the other children.

  5. Re:ZDNet Face-to-Face by Tagren · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I like Scott Mcnealy's face at the picture at the bottom... search for *Scott McNealy believes his company*.
    "How long do I have to sit here"

    --
  6. Novell by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The first thing to know about Novell is that Netware rocks.

    The second thing to know about Novell is to never, ever believe anything they ever say about a product other than...well any of thier products or roadmaps or projected features or plans.