Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Jack Alderson <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 16:22, Terence McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:29:09 +0000
>
> Mark <mcrean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Good points. As a Brit, I feel depressed that a really good slice of
> > European IT (and there is precious little of it) has been swallowed by
> > Uncle Sam. I like SuSE because they don't do Red Hat's big swinging "We
> > are Linux" BS. Many of us Europeans prefer the low-key approach.
>
> I agree.
>
> > Still let's be realistic. The only way forward for SuSE is to reinvent
> > itself, at least to a degree, as an American company. Otherwise, they'll
> > never be able to break into the world's most lucrative IT market.
>
> I don't agree. SuSE does not need to re-invent itself- it's done very well
> as a European-centric organisation in America, (think IBM) which is only
> one market. I don't know the figures for IT spend world wide, but I suspect
> that emerging markets (Russia, China, India, for example - in no particular
> order) will be the best ones to follow.
>
> I suspect that Europe as a whole is not far behind the US IT spend, and the
> emerging market, in say, India, could dwarf the US market on its own.
>
> M$ dominates the existing, and current, market, especially in the USA, but
> also in most techno-developed Western countries. Outside the US, the
> existing, and more importantly the developing, markets are wary if not
> outright antagonistic towards the US domination (read, for the most part,
> M$).
>
> Linux, and especially SuSE Linux has already broken into the world's most
> lucrative markets. We don't need another Red Hat.
>
> Terence

Well said. SuSE was standing tall on its own and was showing good management 
with its inroads and contracts with the large U.S. companies. There was no 
need for it to be bought out by a feable U.S. company like Novell.

Jack A.