VMware Looks To Acquire Novell's SUSE Unit

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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Re:why not just acquire all of Novell

[bsDaemon]

Underrated? I'd say he's overrated in that he doesn't even really deserve the controversy. Theo De Raadt is more worth debating (and only just a little more), but the OpenBSD project, whether you use it or not, is responsible for OpenSSL and OpenSSH and damned near the entire world relies on those. I don't think I've consciously used a Mono-based piece of software ever, and don't particularly care for Gnome since its started to get lame, or KDE which has always been lame.

Plus, Oracle didn't show anything about Java that people didn't already know: Java's not really entirely free as in "its my sexy software, i'll do what i want", and Oracle isn't as friendly about things as Sun. a .net CLI thats perpetually playing catch-up with Microsoft's version isn't going to be a replacement for Java in any meaningful way that I can see, and its not like we'd be any worse off without either, anyway.