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Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the people-still-use-novell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that: "Novell announced the program at its European BrainShare 2004 tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain." "Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."

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  1. saw this coming... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, did you think that Novell threw all those millions of dollars at SuSE for fun? Oh no, SuSE is the core of the next NetWare.

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  2. Let's stop breaking Linux up. by garcia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "But this is also aimed at Windows software vendors, Unix software vendors, or vendors who'd developed for other flavors of Linux but who'd like run on SUSE Linux, too," He said.

    I love the fact that Linux has the flexibility of having multiple flavors but I really think that making the flavors incompatible is a roadblock for wide acceptance.

    People who develop for Windows are going to look at Linux and say, "but if we want to reach everyone we have to deal with RedHat, SUSE, Foo, and DoubleFoo."

    Shouldn't companies that want to support Linux as a viable alternative be pushing for a standard to be followed?

  3. logical next step after acquisition of SuSE by nomad63 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somehow, someway, Novell needs to make money out of the deal. By basically giving away their product, it is not likely to happen anytime soon. But if they add an arsenal of software which is certified to run on Linux platform, the landscape drastically changes and these changes will favor Novell.

    A big round of applause for this novel (pun intended) idea of Novell...

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  4. Re:Who could use some help by SunPin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Screw Office. Everyone uses office for one reason: The Microsoft marketing department.

    Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access--especially Access--are not valid reasons for parting with your money.

    Microsoft represents everything wrong about the world consumers have to deal with. Since there's no profit in a _solved_ problem and a _stable_ solution, everything in this country is built to break.

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