Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Justin Davies <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think we should calm down a bit here.  On the PPC note, IBM has 
heavily invested in this deal, with $50million of shares, so they will 
not let Novell mess this up.  IBM is not stupid, they know SuSE is 
their biggest ally in the Linux arena as far as R&D etc goes.

And as for comparing SuSE on the desktop to the RH guys, don't bother, 
I doubt a decision has even been made regarding the whole thing yet.

Remember, the guys at SuSE know the community, so does IBM.  Novell 
will have a lot of people giving them good advice.

Justin

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On 4 Nov 2003, at 14:55, Don wrote:

> well, the problem I have with this model is that IBM's power based 
> systems
> are almost exclusively SuSe right now and in the near future...so you 
> can
> bet Armonk is watching both of these really closely...
>
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kaare Rasmussen" <kar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:39 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SLE] novell
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > >  I would guess that it's in Novell's best interest to keep the 
> > > > price of
> > > > SuSE as low or lower than it is now. It's in their best interest
> > > > (selling server OS's) for SuSE to become the new standard. 'Til I 
> > > > see
> > > > otherwise, I'll take this as good news.
> > >
> > > Novell could let SuSE and Ximian work together to make the best 
> > > desktop
> > ever.
> > > So there's a big opportunity for a very brght future.
> > >
> > > OTOH, Novell has historically been excellent to make marketing 
> > > disasters
> > for
> > > end user software. WordPerfect, Corel, GroupWise, the Java Office 
> > > Suite,
> > ...
> >
> > Lots of disasters and hardly any successes.  Hardly a recipe for 
> > taking SuSE
> > to new heights.  The fear is the SuSE could be next in the list.
> >
> > OTOH, Novell has historically been excellent to make marketing 
> > disasters for
> >  end user software. WordPerfect, Corel, GroupWise, the Java Office 
> > Suite,
> > SuSE (Provisional)
> >
> >
> > LW999
> >
> >
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