Re: Oracle-Novell

One other thought. IF it turns out Novell actually holds the copyrights to Unix THAT could be a motvie for buying Novell since Solaris is the 64 bit platform of choice for Oracle. Oracle has a vested interest in making sure MS doesn't buy Unix by picking up the pieces of either a decimated SCO or weakened Novell. Only time will tell. Ultimately the GNOME boys in charge at Novell are going to kill SUSE Linux as we've come to love it anyway. CD On 4/17/06, Chuck Davis wrote:

This whole discussion is nonsense. What is the motive? If Oracle wanted a Linux distro why not grab openSuse and start adding their goodies? Why pay millions for Novell? Or Redhat? I don't see it happening. Maybe testing the waters to see what the reaction to an Oracle distro might be but I don't think they're going to buy Novell for SUSE Linux -- maybe OpenExchange or something but not Linux which already is so readily available.

That's my $.02.

Chuck

On 4/17/06, Dwerts wrote:

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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. -- Don N7NKJ SuSE 9.3 Because it keeps on working! and it's open source!

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