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Oracle Looks At Buying Novell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the consolidation-to-continue dept.

Several readers wrote to note Larry Ellison's comments about launching an Oracle Linux Distro (great! yet another!) and that Oracle has/is also looking at purchasing Novell. The great shake-out continues.

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  1. yay by KarmaMB84 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oracle Novell SuSE Desktop Linux!

    1. Re:yay by iggymanz · · Score: 5, Funny

      hey, that's GNU/Oracle-Novell-SuSE Desktop Linux!! GnoranoveSuSE?

    2. Re:yay by moro_666 · · Score: 1, Funny

      Orall Linux ...

      Suse suse for 5 dollars ? :p

      here goes my excellent karma, but i just had to say it ...

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    3. Re:yay by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nah -- that's SuSe/Novell/Oracle Desktop Linux, or SNOracle Desktop Linux for short. (Which will quickly get renamed "SnorDebacle", after the combined company starts using Debian's technology, too.)

    4. Re:yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      GnoranoveSuSE? Isn't that a STD?

    5. Re:yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      hey, that's GNU/Oracle-Novell-SuSE Desktop Linux!! GnoranoveSuSE?

      Or in Average Joe's vocabulary... Gonorrea

  2. Not another distribution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gentoo and Ubuntu ought to be enough for anyone. That's it. No more corporate Linuxes.

  3. Oracle db over netware by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 1, Funny

    Schweet, I can't wait...

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  4. Re:Novell has been for sale for years by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · Score: 2, Funny

    You make them sound like Caldera. At least they have the rights to Unix.

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  5. whatevar by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm running DBase II over Banyan Vines.

  6. Why stop there? by jayhawk88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, let's get Sun into this deal somehow too! Then we could have the trifecta of old school struggling tech companies bound by a hatred of Microsoft.

  7. Rumors preempted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rumors of a Novell buyout by Oracle were pre-empted today when Redhat officially announced their aquisition of Novell.

    It seems, though that all may not be lost for Oracle. Redhat has indicated that Novell will sell off their Suse division before the Redhat-Novell merger is completed.

    "We have been trying to work this deal for a long time," said the head janitor at Redhat's Sao Paulo, Brazil offices. "Why do you think we ejected 'Fedora Directory Services'? We're ready to push eDirectory to its full potential!"

    Officials at Oracle did not comment. But a chair was heard smashing against a wall in Redmond, WA.

  8. Re:Novell's new tagline by Dr.+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naw, not rotten. Novell is a good company. Stable, boring.

    It's more of a pinecone. Nobody is sure what to do with it.

  9. Re:In other news by rainman_bc · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did. I did when Novell made noises that they were going to stop supporting KDE on SuSE.

    And yet YaST remains written in Qt... An annoying move on SuSE's part...

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  10. i'm just guessing how it'd called by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe "Larinx".

    "larry" plus "*nix", got it ? no ? well, whatever.

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  11. LFS should be enough for anyone by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only pansys need a distro.. be a man and do it yourself..

    Ok, so im only kidding. somewhat.

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  12. Is this even a story?!? by AtlantaSteve · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, the standards for Slashdot articles seem to be slipping by the day. Now all it takes to get people talking is speculation about PAST events that didn't even happen?

    Back in 1985, rock guitarist Slash (of later Guns 'n Roses fame) almost joined Poison, to take the spot which eventually went to C.C. Deville. There, babble about the relevance of that for awhile.