Kai Ponte wrote:
Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
-- kai www.perfectreign.com | www.ecmplace.com www.twitter.com/PerfectReign
So we're in a recession and the company is feeling the pain. Microsoft just laid people off too. Google had to make some changes too.....
What does this have to with Opensuse?
Only that Novell is openSUSE's parent...
"Nor will it help that of the roughly 100 jobs Novell recently terminated, Novell reportedly trimmed 20 percent, or 30 people, from its OpenSuse ranks, according to Linux Magazine. Novell's OpenSuse community lead, Joe Brockmeier, has tried to put a positive spin on these layoffs, but with OpenSuse providing an early testbed for some of the technology that feeds into Suse Linux Enterprise Server, this can't be positive for innovation in Novell's Linux business.
But the larger concern is Novell's continued dependence on Microsoft to sell Suse Linux. I have suggested in the past that Novell's reliance on Microsoft appeared to be waning. It appears that I was wrong, as The Register suggests:"
What really needs to be known, is "what" are other distos. who have gained market share doing that Novell isn't? openSUSE IS a better distro., but somehow "something" isn't being done to gain the market share that it should have. Fred -- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org