--- Joe Zitnik <JZitnik@hfcc.net> wrote:
That last quote I read said Ellison had been thinking of buying Novell, but decided against it. The reasons to buy Novell are plenty. They are cash rich, even with the recent attempts by Novell management to destroy the company with lousy business decisions and lack of marketing, they still have a ton o' cash. Remember as well, few people hate MS the way Ellison does. Oracle's purchase of Novell would give them plenty. First, a messaging product (GroupWise) to go against Exchange, a couple of different operating systems at the network level, Netware and SuSE, and a desktop platform. Throw in some of Novell's excellent products like ZenWorks and Identity Manager, which are always winning best in show awards, but poorly marketed as the rest of Novell offerings are, and it makes all kinds of sense. All of the sudden, Oracle goes from a company seen mainly as a database provider, to a company that has both server and desktop operating systems, desktop management and messaging solutions, as well as a world class database. Sound like anyone else out there? Now Oracle can go head to head with MS at every level. Plus both of them use red as their primary logo color :-)
On 4/17/2006 at 7:28 PM, Dwerts <n7nkj@charter.net> wrote: Hi all, just my 2 cents worth into the fray. Larry E. is getting use to getting his way and with his strong dislike of Bill G and MS, I wouldn't be surprised at all that Novell is bought by Oracle. They, Oracle, have a VP in charge of Linux product development, SuSE is the next piece of the puzzle for them, I think. Do they have the $'s, probably.
All I hope for is whoever ends up owning my favorite Linux distribution stay true to its nature of providing a playing field for many open source projects and products. What I like most about GNU/Linux is variety I would be very upset if I could not see and try different things. I am wondering what is going to happen to MySQL and PostgreSQL if Oracle gets the distro they are competitors at a certain market niche. Oracle's model has to be different from the "my way or the high way" model someone else is using ;). Regards, George
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