On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:08:10 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Red Hat's (and Sun's) missed SUSE opportunity
>
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> | Chew on that last one for a bit. Way back in 2002/2003, Sun might have been
> | in the Linux business, while Novell might have kept fiddling with NetWare
> | (but more likely would have gone actively into the open-source applications
> | realm, following on its acquisition of Ximian). We would have been living in
> | a very different open-source industry if things had gone Sun's way back then.
> |
> | Better? Worse? I don't know. But different.
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> http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9929911-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
>
> The headline might as well say "SuSE's missed opportunity". With Novell, it got
> trapped by Microsoft. Red Hat wanted to buy SuSE.
Interesting to note that as M$ fortunes begin to slide, RedHat reports
that its revenue for the last financial year was over $523 million
despite the US economy going into a downturn. Profits up $76 million, &
ReHat forecast they would hit $1 billion in revenues in less than 3 years.
> Also on Novell:
>
> Novell turns tables on SCO Group
>
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> | Kimball will open a 4-day bench trial Tuesday to determine whether Novell is
> | entitled to the $37 million it claims [from SCO].
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> http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8234091&nav=menu554_2_3
>
>
> Recent:
>
> Windows Explorer in Opensuse Installer
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> | Seems Novell and Microsoft are working VERY closely together.
> | Look at the explorer window in Opensuse' installation. Doesn't it look
> | familiar?
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> http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-explorer-in-opensuse.html
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