Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 01:40 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:13, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> > These businesses want all systems to play nicely together, with a
> > minimum of fuss. This kind of agreement between Novell and Microsoft
> > is exactly what they want. It may in the end prove hightly beneficial
> > to linux in general. It may not.
> 
> I think that's the key here, and the only real plus for Novel is their
> network management suite, which largely pre-dates the SuSE purchase.
> 
> It is the only thing out there capable of managing 4 to 4000 PCs spread
> all over the world.  Microsoft needed it.  Novel had it.
> 
> So why is Novel sending money to Microsoft?  THATS what I want to know.
> 
> Both of them should be sending money to VmWare for the virtualization
> aspect, because both of the other products suck.
> 

Anyone know where this leaves openSUSE?
So what if Enterprise SUSE gets assimilated by MS, isnt this just a test
of the whole open source idea? No one can take it away?


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