Red Hat's (and Sun's) missed SUSE opportunity
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| Chew on that last one for a bit. Way back in 2002/2003, Sun might have been
| in the Linux business, while Novell might have kept fiddling with NetWare
| (but more likely would have gone actively into the open-source applications
| realm, following on its acquisition of Ximian). We would have been living in
| a very different open-source industry if things had gone Sun's way back then.
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| Better? Worse? I don't know. But different.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9929911-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
The headline might as well say "SuSE's missed opportunity". With Novell, it got
trapped by Microsoft. Red Hat wanted to buy SuSE. Also on Novell:
Novell turns tables on SCO Group
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| Kimball will open a 4-day bench trial Tuesday to determine whether Novell is
| entitled to the $37 million it claims [from SCO].
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http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8234091&nav=menu554_2_3
Recent:
Windows Explorer in Opensuse Installer
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| Seems Novell and Microsoft are working VERY closely together.
| Look at the explorer window in Opensuse' installation. Doesn't it look
| familiar?
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http://paulsdigitalworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/windows-explorer-in-opensuse.html
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