The WP acquisition was (at least!) 50% Utah Mormon cronyism. Bunch of old buddies from the Stake got themslves in a hole and looked to Novell to bail 'm out. Could still have been good for Novell, but then Novell fired Norda and sold off WP, so never executed a real strategy against MS. Just rolled over and played dead under Frankenberger.
[Btw, the Cambridge buy was 99% cronyism (east coast faction that time) and failed even worse.]
SuSe is the first major acquisition by Novell that was motivated 100% by an actual business strategy. Proves what the press has said about the current Novell leaders not being the same people who made the mistakes of the past. I have good expectations this time. Keeping my stock. May buy more. Once the new products start shipping on Linux later this year, it will get expensive.
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The WP acquisition was (at least!) 50% Utah Mormon cronyism. Bunch of old buddies from the Stake got themslves in a hole and looked to Novell to bail 'm out. Could still have been good for Novell, but then Novell fired Norda and sold off WP, so never executed a real strategy against MS. Just rolled over and played dead under Frankenberger.
[Btw, the Cambridge buy was 99% cronyism (east coast faction that time) and failed even worse.]
SuSe is the first major acquisition by Novell that was motivated 100% by an actual business strategy. Proves what the press has said about the current Novell leaders not being the same people who made the mistakes of the past. I have good expectations this time. Keeping my stock. May buy more. Once the new products start shipping on Linux later this year, it will get expensive.
Maybe because strongswan is a class project with no QA. Easy to get enhancements in when you don't need to bother testing them...