Dear folks, we announce now the premature death of SuSE !!!
Dear folks, we announce now the premature death of SuSE !!! It was such a nice thing, having you beside ! All is gone now ! Munich will be drop dead soon too, under M$ operating systems and viruses !
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From: "SuSE Ground Zero"
Dear folks, we announce now the premature death of SuSE !!!
It was such a nice thing, having you beside ! All is gone now ! Munich will be drop dead soon too, under M$ operating systems and viruses !
The death could be slow and painful. LW999
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 14:10, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
Dear folks, we announce now the premature death of SuSE !!!
It was such a nice thing, having you beside ! All is gone now ! Munich will be drop dead soon too, under M$ operating systems and viruses !
Well I'm a bit more towards James's position on that - I thought I was one of the world's great pessimists until I read the comments above. Let's see if anything actually has died before we bury it. On the other hand, what's been said about Novell's track record with consumer products seems true enough to me - perhaps they'll play their hand better this time. If we had had to choose anyone to buy out SuSE, I think I'd have preferred it to be Sun or IBM, but there we are. I'd be interested to know how many SuSE employees knew this was about to happen, but it wouldn't be very tasteful to ask. A bit early to hold the funeral though, surely? -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:48:20 +0000
Fergus Wilde
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 14:10, SuSE Ground Zero wrote:
Dear folks, we announce now the premature death of SuSE !!!
It was such a nice thing, having you beside ! All is gone now ! Munich will be drop dead soon too, under M$ operating systems and viruses !
Well I'm a bit more towards James's position on that - I thought I was one of the world's great pessimists until I read the comments above. Let's see if anything actually has died before we bury it.
-- sent to RH customers -- As previously communicated, Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 as of December 31, 2003. Red Hat will discontinue maintenance and errata support for Red Hat Linux 9 as of April 30, 2004. Red Hat does not plan to release another product in the Red Hat Linux line. -- END -- I'm a bit worried to see that the only 2 left commercial distro taking care of the Linux desktop market are SUSE and MDK. I'm wondering if anyone will be "Linux for the masses". Debian? MDK? Gentoo? SUSE invested a lot in pushing Linux in the Public Administration... they still sell mmm how did they call it? "SUSE Desktop". MS is pushing .NET in places where once there were just *nix boxes with the excuse to homogeneize workstations to servers. If a Linux company would like to survive the winter they have to keep on supporting the desktop market... but will they be that smart? If they won't, if they will be too greedy... well we've the chance to switch... We will see shortly keeping an eye on: - the kind of support they will give back to the community and to Open Source projects - if they will make further step in making harder to copy CDs (proprietary soft into the distro not clearly separated from Free Software, YaST license etc...) - if they will increase suddently prices of the Desktop editions - etc... I think leaving desktop market is a way to suicide. Getting money from the enterprise market and giving away for free soft for the desktop may be a winning move as MS did with IE. Now with all these money in the pockets SUSE shouldn't be scared to give away iso images of a *decent* not mangled distro as Sun did with StarOffice...
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