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Intel Invests 12 Million Euro in SuSE

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-cash dept.

Bartmoss writes "Intel and the venture capital firm Apax are investing 12 million Euro in SuSE. Read the press release online. Looks like they want to open up new offices in parts of Europe, start moving into the Asian markets, and do the fashionable IPO thing. "

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  1. This could spell doom for the Wintel alliance by jd · · Score: 5
    After Intel's massive investment in Red Hat, it was suspected that the Wintel alliance was getting shaky. But $12 million+ for SuSE is nothing to sneeze at, either!

    If SuSE and Red Hat can get together and do strategic spending (no need for them to duplicate each other's staff & skill lists), then we could see some staggering strides towards the desktop.

    On the other hand, if SuSE and Red Hat prefer bloody battle between each other, we could end up seeing a vicious fight indeed, with these kinds of resources available.

    I guess we shall see.

    --
    It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
  2. DON'T FORGET THE 'TEL'in 'WINTEL' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4


    Hey guys don't forget that Intel has a vested
    interest in the wintel hegemony.

    They may be giving Redhat, VA research and Suse money. but do you really want to replace windows
    with Pentium?

    Look at VA linux they have stopped selling or
    developing for any system but INTEL.

    NO Alpha,
    NO PPC,
    NO AMD,

    NO Nothing, except INTEL from VA Research.

    They even have started spouting INTEL FUD about
    how merced will take over the world.

    When these linux companies get bought by big
    companies with vested interests they will begin
    to change.

    We just don't want software choice we also
    want hardware choice. don't forget that.

    So VA Research, and all those companies that are
    making it rich on linux. remember where it all
    came from. And support linux on all hardware possible.

  3. Good And Bad by z84976 · · Score: 4

    This is good because it will help a lot of R&D happen a lot faster than it otherwise would have, but at what cost?

    I use SuSE pretty much exclusively, and I love it. When the Athlon first came out, the SuSE boot disk wouldn't work with it. SuSE very quickly posted an Athlon-compatible boot disk on their web site. Do you think Intel's investment will prod SuSE to ignore AMD? I think Intel makes fine products, but if these investments are just their way of discouraging software support for their competitors' products... well, they will have to be stopped. They've proven beyond any doubt this year that they no longer hold their #1 Chip Company position by superior products; strongarm tactics and (semi-)empty threats are their new modus operandi. I'm buying an Athlon soon because I want the best for my next x86 PC, and if SuSE backs down on support for it I'll be cancelling my subscription and going back to Slackware...

  4. I'm not so sure by DanaL · · Score: 4

    It seems to me that Intel investing in other OSes is almost old hat. Not only did then send money RedHat's way, the sent Intel engineers over to Be Inc. in order to help them with the port of BeOS to x86 platform.

    Mind you, that was also before Linux was generally considered a serious threat to Windows.

    Dana