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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:IBM *not* a "Red Hat shop" by morelife · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. Again, with Slashdot mis information. IBM has never used Red Hat and has had alliances and product lines with SuSE Linux FOR YEARS. Get it straight.

  2. Re:Red Hat had it coming by bangular · · Score: 0, Troll

    >OK. Cite some actual examples to back that up please.

    The first few paragraphs

    >But which formerly "open source" software has RedHat made proprietary?

    Their entire OS! On top of that, although RHAS is GPL, they've made it known they do not want people copying it.

    >What's your metric for "buggy"?

    An OS that on older systems can not make it through the installer. I've never had an installer die like anaconda. Almost every other distribution I use, LFS, Gentoo, sometimes debian, Beehive when it was still around, Slackware, and many others, all the programs work after an install. I've never had programs randomly segfault immediatly after an install. It seems like a regular occourence on Red Hat systems.

    >RHCE is a _practical_ hands-on certification which shows that the holder can actually do something other than make marks on a bit of paper

    So is the Novell Linux cert. And it will attempt to be distribution neutral.

    And for the record, I'm not some huge Suse supporter who only uses Suse. I've administered most major distributions at one time or another and use LFS at home and Gentoo on servers. I call 'em as I see 'em.