Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support - Novell/SUSE

[Tom Adelstein <adelste@netscape.net>]

cdmiller@adams.edu wrote:
> paul wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 14:18, Marilyn wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, this RedHat news is a bummer.
> > >
> > > What is the opinion of this group on the Novell/SUSE purchase?
> >
> >
> > I hope that what happened to WordPerfect when Novell bought it
> > doesn't happen to SUSE.
> >
> > paul 
>
> Agreed, and that goes for Ximian as well.
>
> It is probably Novell's only chance to survive, so hopefully current 
> management wont botch it and bring SUSE and Ximian down with the ship. 
> It is still unclear to me whether they really "get" free and open source 
> software, but the are giving it a try.
>
> Maybe Novell will end up with great support offerings for SUSE and 
> Ximian and be able to survive.  The markets seem to agree with the 
> purchase with a 20% rise in NOVL stock today.
>
> - cameron
I've spoken at length with people in management and took their course on 
Linux with novell services.

 http://www.novell.com/training/linux/linux_linux_book.pdf a relatively 
short but extremely enlightening piece.

I have done my due diligence, read all their SEC filings, tracked down 
management histories etc. I even did calculations on their stock prices, 
did timeline analysis of their financial statements, etc.

This is a new management team, very bright, very intelligent. They had a 
merger with Cambridge Technology Partners. It's a brand new, very 
exciting group of people. A new company.

If you have any lingering pictures of Novell, put them on the side of 
the road. This is all goodness for OSS. I can also tell you I was 
skeptical going into my review. So, this was a pleasant surprise.



- Tom Adelstein