Re: [school-discuss] Re: Novell/SUSE

[Tom Adelstein <adelste@netscape.net>]

suhaw@giskard.com.sg wrote:
> At 08:54 05/11/2003, you 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
>
> looks like Novell is finally getting its act together.
>
> after years of languishing in its cash horde from NetWare sales, it 
> finally decided on a viable plan for the future.
>
> first it bought Ximian, a really great linux software company with a 
> fantastic desktop PIM application, namely Evolution.  Now it bought one 
> of the better Linux distro.
>
> things are looking up.  :-)
From a strategic point of view, the new CEO Jack Messman has completely 
changed the direction of Novell and the culture.

But, one has to give some credit to Eric Schmidt (of Sun Java fame) for 
coming over from Sun and implementing Novell version 5 with TCPIP. 
Schmidt also put Novell into the Open Source world and now runs Google.

You might have noticed that Open LDAP has benefited from Novell's 
support, code contributions and development.

Any reference to WordPerfect has to go back to the Ray Norda era when he 
ran the company. Also, remember Norda is the founder of the current SCO 
and it's his money that pays the bills on SCO's lawsuits and threats.

Norda no longer has anything to do with Novell. We need to flush the 
cache on Novell and recognize what they've done even prior to any 
acquisitions.