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VMware Looks To Acquire Novell's SUSE Unit

Posted by Soulskill on from the talking-turkey dept.

minutetraders writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, VMware is attempting to acquire Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business. This move would give VMware a full stack of enterprise software and allow it to establish itself as a full-blown infrastructure and software vendor in direct competition with Red Hat." The WSJ report is behind a paywall, but it's accessible in full through a Google search.

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  1. Re:Novell can't afford it by tsstahl · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you missed the news about Novell looking to break itself up into pieces.

  2. Re:interesting move by Courageous · · Score: 3, Informative

    ESX is not "based" on Red Hat, even using a loose reading of the word "based".

    When you log onto the console operating system in a ESX environment, you are not, in fact, logging onto ESX at all.

    The console operating system is a privileged VM running on the ESX server that solely exists to let you run command lines and the like, to discover information about the hypervisor's state, tell it what to do, and so forth. That has turned out to be the source of numerous security holes, hence the moving away from it.

    C//

  3. Re:why not just acquire all of Novell by NickFortune · · Score: 3, Informative

    what desktop are you using and what is your language of choice?

    If I can jump in here: I use FVWM with a heavily customised config file. Languages of choice, depending on the task at hand, are C, C++, Perl, and (currently) Lua or Ruby. That's running Linux, rather than BSD. I do use some Gnome and KDE apps.

    I've never used Java for anything significant. I did use Mono professionally for three to four years, a couple of years ago, I can safely say that I don't miss it in the least.

    Gnome is all right, and I quite like KDE, but both of them consume a lot of resources to provide a set of integration features that I don't need and rarely use. And I've rather got used to having a desktop that does things my way, rather than whatever is current trendy in the relevant communities.

    --
    Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
  4. Re:Not SuSE by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Informative
    Mandriva is dead. Almost all the devs have either quit or been fired in the last week. read moe here, the goodbyes on Cooker here, and the newest "plan" - to move development of Mandriva to Brazil here and turn it into a BRIC- country distro. Forget that China already has Red Flag Linux. Forget that they were able to grab Connectiva (a Brazilian distro) and killed the brand. Forget that ALT Linux is an actively maintained Russian distro with a new release earlier today.

    Mandriva has lost 30 million euros, unable even to win over its' home market despite the government helping push them in education. It's dead, Jim!