Novell as Open Source Hero? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 14, 2004 @08:29PM from the faster-than-speeding-bullet dept.

ccnull writes "Who's the #2 Linux vendor in the world? Would you believe Novell? Infoworld takes a look at this long-struggling giant and how it has (and hasn't) reinvented itself as an open source company in the face of utterly losing the LAN market to Microsoft." The piece argues: "But even though it seems to be holding all the right cards, Novell faces tough odds. In recent years, tough competition from Microsoft and dwindling support from third-party developers have caused Novell's once-loyal base to look elsewhere for infrastructure needs. Unless it can win back the loyalty of the industry, Novell's new, Linux-centric message could fall on deaf ears."

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Re:Mono by JPriest · 2004-07-14 20:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They just need to package portage with SuSE Linux. rpm is horrible, gentoo's install method is time consuming, why not take the best of both worlds?
Does portage not scale?

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