I think everyone is getting a little carried away with this. There has never been any discussions by Sun to buy Novell. One of the major financial firms, I believe it was Morgan Stanley, said Sun must buy Red Hat or Novell to become a player in the Linux market. This is just a bunch of numbers crunchers speculating on something they have no real grasp on. I don't think it ever would happen for a couple of reasons. First, because of their cash reserves, Novell has always been the subject of takeover speculation. About six years ago there was talk that IBM was going to buy Novell and that never happened. Second, their is an alliance now between Sun and Microsoft. MS just dumped over a billion dollars in to Sun. Read some of the press about how Sun's stance toward Microsoft has softened. I think Novell and some of the other major IT players, like IBM, would help to fight the takeover because of the relationship between Sun and Microsoft. Think about it, Novell buying SuSE poses the first threat to Microsoft in a long time. Even with that money, and because of Novell cash reserves, I don't think Sun has the financial muscle to buy Novell. Third, for the first time in God knows how long, Novell actually made a wise BUSINESS decision. They've always had great technology, but it always seemed they were TRYING to ruin the company. They buy SilverStream and Ximian, and finally SuSE, and trade rags are finally praising the direction Novell is going. IBM just dumped a boatload of cash in to Novell, and HP and Dell are both certifying Novell's version of Linux on their enterprise servers. Given all of this, if you were running Novell, would you sell to Sun?
"Anders Norrbring "
12/22 6:10 AM >>>
You sure do.. Besides, do anyone really think that Sun can cough up the enormous amount of money it would take to buy Novell Corp? Besides, Novell Inc. is a whole lot bigger than Sun, if you look at the entire corporation. So stop worrying! And as Martin writes, Linux is really US, the users, not the multinational corporations! Merry X-mas all! Anders.
Well guys,
I think you really worry too much!
The HEART of Linux is neither SuSE nor any other commercial company/corporation but the open source society - so WE.
So, don't worry - it's only wasted time :-D
Yours Martin -- Martin Deppe Bramfelder Chaussee 30 c D-22177 Hamburg Tel: +49-(0)40-69 21 38 99 Handy: +49-(0)171-94 778 59 Fax: +49-(0)40-2549 1651 E-Mail: Martin.Deppe@web.de
ReymanX wrote:
Hi All,
How's the futures of SuSE in a long term ? right now suse.com redirected to http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/index.html And from rumors * i know, dont trust rumors !! * that sun will buy novell. Mean while, sun seems like lower their support to linux as they solaris 10 to be open-sources. Where will SuSE going to be ? Or i just worried too much :)
regards,
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