On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 09:54 am, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 5/10/05, SuSE Ground Zero
wrote: Predictable ... now I guess we gonna see some damage control and smoke screens from Novell. SuSE brand was mortified from 9.2 version allready, now it is just dying faster.
Why are you and Preston never seen together? :-) Shhhh! You'll give away the secret! ;-)
Seibert seemed to have been parachuted into the role as boss of Suse in order to ease the Novell buyout. Thats happened, the Suse business unit is seems to be generating a tidy sum for Novell. Looks like he's done a pretty good job and decided to move on, more than likely back to IBM with a comfortable VP role in the Linux division.
Seibert has also been with Suse for ~ 2 1/2 years which is a pretty good run for someone at that level.
No disagreement in principle from me. I just expected more "1+1=3" offerings from Novell/SuSE in the past year. And the one "1+1=3" offering I tried to use I found would work only for new, not existing clients. I think they could have done a better job there. Plus, SLES9 unit sales were not up as much as I think anyone expected/hoped, given the backing of Novell's sales force, IBM's support, and all the free publicity from the acquisition. -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com