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IBM Invests $50M in Novell, May Ship SUSE Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-deals dept.

dave writes "Novell announced that it has finalized a $50 million investment from IBM, and that IBM can now begin shipping SUSE Linux on all IBM server platforms. Historically, IBM has been a 'Red Hat shop,' and one has to wonder if this is a harbinger of things to come."

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  1. Re:question? by Frequanaut · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    WTF? No longer in the IT world?

    From a post you made earlier:

    Please keep in mind that being only nearly 20, the depth of my personal experience...

    So when, exactly, were you in the IT world? And what IT world was that? Your high school?

  2. Re:A Red Hat shop? by hardcode57 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The best stuff will always default to A4, because the best stuff is written in Europe

  3. Re:The Big Slashdot Fallacy by jrockway · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > a tool you need to be a total hacker to use

    Yeah. Clicking those damn links is sooo hard. Seriously btdownloadgui opens up the .torrent file, and then the file downloads. THAT is hard? No wonder people need a fucking paper clip to help them write a paper...

    And BTW... Computers are too hard? Then why do people need to use them? Ever hear of a word processor or typewriter? Maybe a calculator would help people with difficult math problems like Integral(sin(x),x,0,2*Pi)...

    Anyway, I'm not going to spend my time dumbing down computers for other people. I want them to be powerful, not friendly. Want friendly/eye candy? Get a girlfriend :)

    --
    My other car is first.
  4. Re:Redhat may count the cost... by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe the solution is that Redhat should steal money from the taxpayers like NPR does ?

    Hell, everybody else feeds at the public trough, why not them...