Sun Pondering Buying Novell

Krafty Koder writes "ZDNet are reporting that Sun are considering purchasing Novell and thus gain SUSE Linux. 'With our balance sheet, we're considering all our options,' Sun chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz said in an interview on Sunday regarding the possibility of acquiring Novell. 'What would owning the operating system on which IBM is dependent be worth? History would suggest we look to Microsoft for comparisons,' he said."

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Re:"Owning the operating system"?

[tyrione]

How about "and the engineers who built and understand it more than anyone else in the world."

Oh shit what a baseless and overly confident statement inferring these software programmers are actually Engineers that are the last bastion of higher thought. Last time I checked most Linux heads aren't graduates in various fields of Engineerings.

With the economy so fucked up the fact no one has published a Web Portal reaching out to contact Mechanical, Electrical Civil, Computer Science and off-shoot disciplines of folks bored and way too intelligent to be flipping burgers while they look for work in their respective fields, to collaborate and actually improve Linux, not to mention the entire IT industry.

Instead, most of this top talent is taking Food Service jobs, Retail jobs just to make ends meat until they can get back into the 'Game.'