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| Details from Novell's Chris Stone and Novell-IBM Linux Seminars |
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Tuesday, November 04 2003 @ 06:23 PM EST
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There is an interview with Novell's Chris Stone here, giving some details about the SuSE acquisition: "Q: How did the idea to acquire SUSE germinate?
"STONE: In April at BrainShare is when we made the first announcement that NetWare services were going to go basically on top of Linux. We wanted to learn how the open-source community actually works. We didn't want to be the big, bad enterprise company that dove into it.
"We had been working with SUSE for quite some time. But we decided strategically that we really needed to provide the entire stack. So it was about two months ago that we really decided to go for it. They weren't out grocery shopping. We really decided this is what we wanted to do, and we went after it. . . .
"Q: Don't you see this as a risky move at all, in light of the legal actions SCO has taken with respect to Linux?
"STONE: No, not at all. We think the SCO move is pretty much an unsubstantiated claim. They've never been able to prove anything they've been talking about. Our customers have not balked at this issue. I don't believe SUSE has any particular issues with SCO. As far as we're concerned, it hasn't been an issue."
SUSE will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, and SuSE CEO Richard Seibt will be the CEO and general manager, reporting to Novell CEO Jack Messman.
If it interests you, there is a Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Seminar that you can attend free: "The Novell and IBM Linux Solutions seminar is taking place in more than 40 cities around North America, so locate a seminar near you and register today. All attendees will receive a Linux Solutions kit which will include a Novell Nterprise Linux Services Beta One CD." It was supposed to be about Ximian, but I'm guessing the topic just expanded. If anyone attends, I would love to hear about it. Here's what they said it was going to be about: "Attend the seminar to find out what Novell's recent acquisition of Ximian, a leading provider of Linux server and desktop solutions, means for your business." It started today and runs through the 13th. The cities are listed on the web site. Signing up doesn't guarantee a place, and it's first-come, first-serve. Here, for example, is what they say if you go to sign up for the Nov. 12 NYC event: "Join us to learn how new Linux solutions from Novell, Ximian, and IBM can expand your options and lower your TCO.
"During this informative event, Novell experts will show you how Novell Nterprise Linux Services, Ximian solutions, and IBM can help you enhance your NetWare environment, embrace open source solutions, and deliver secure, consistent services and support across your NetWare and Linux systems."
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| Authored by: eamacnaghten on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 01:18 AM EST |
Will Novell/SuSE contrinue with their off-the-shelf boxed distributions I
wonder? Or will they go the RedHat way off just going after the enterprise?[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 02:24 AM EST |
To me this doesn't sound like as if Novell was already preparing a lawsuit
against SCO. Too bad. I was hoping to see a third front opening up.
Novell really sucks. They should have sued SCO much earlier when SCO
initially ignored their order to let IBM alone.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 04:52 AM EST |
Question: "The two of us are at each other's throats. Why did you get
married?"
Answer: "It seemed to be a good idea at the time"
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 04:52 AM EST |
Where is the "NYC" event? If it is actually in Manhattan, then I can
probably attend. If it's in one of the outer boroughs, or God forbid, NJ, then
I probably can't make it.
I confess, I don't drive, and consequentially, I am a *very* provincial New
Yorker.
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| Authored by: DrStupid on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 05:39 AM EST |
And from Reuters:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031104/tech_suse_novell_9.html
I quote:
"Novell's push follows a year of questions about the future of Linux
raised by legal challenges from rival SCO Group Inc....., which claims to own
the rights to patents underlying Linux and its forebearer, called Unix.
Novell once owned the patents but sold them to SCO."
Good grief. Not even *TSG* claim they bought the patents. You would think that
Reuters could tell one sort of IP from another.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Thomas Downing on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 09:20 AM EST |
Hi PJ and all,
I will be attending the event on November 11th, in Hartford. If notbody has
reported on an earlier attendance, I will report on mine.
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Thomas Downing
Principal Member Technical Staff
IPC Information Systems, Inc.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 05 2003 @ 07:51 PM EST |
| IDC analysis of Novell purchase of SuSE:
link [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Thorsten on Thursday, November 06 2003 @ 06:12 AM EST |
Here's an article in German
newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
The last paragraph states that
IBM probably put pressure on SuSE to be sold to Novell:
"Without the
sale, another 20 to 25 million euro in financial support would have been needed,
it was alleged among investors. However, this was not the reason for the sale.
All investors were prepared to sign the increase in capital. But, not least of
it, Suse partner IBM demanded a stronger presence of Suse in America.
E-Millennium, Apax and Ad Astra invested about 60 million euro since 1999, and
approximately tripled this capital through the sale of Suse. Also, the founders,
who held only 7 percent in the end, and the other investors Intel (7 percent),
IBM (3.5 percent) und Seibt (3.5 percent) sold their shares to
Novell."
German business daily Handelsblatt say in their article that E-Millennium is a
venture capital firm that belongs among others to Deutsche Bank. Seems they have
a finger in every pie. Another (very short) article in German
newspaper Tageszeitung says that New Yorks GA Eliot Spitzer investigates whether
the US investment branch of Deutsche Bank helped investors execute illegal
investment deals. Hmmm...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 06 2003 @ 02:04 PM EST |
This morning I attended the "Novell and IBM Linux Solutions Seminar"
in Princeton, NJ. Most of it was Novell groupware and IBM hardware marketing
stuff. However, there were a few gems and I managed to corner a Novell/Ximian
tech and get some nifty answers, as well as the larger Q&A Session.
However, very little could be said definitively, since Novell hasn't actually
purchased SuSE yet.
1) "Will Novell sue SCO?" The answer is most definitively "No
Comment", handed down in no uncertain terms from Novell's legal
department. I couldn't get much more privately, but I wouldn't be surprised
if they're looking into it.
2) SuSE Linux Professional will continue to be sold retail.
3) ISO images for SuSE will almost certainly appear for download.
4)Novell is looking to take a similar road as IBM. By getting behind Linux,
they are looking to take the OS out of the issue and sell Groupware and whatnot
that runs on top of it.
5) The Novell people want to head down the road that RedHat used to be on: The
OS is free, you get yearly contracts only for support.
6) They seem to be excited that RedHat has decided to cede the entire small
business and retail market to them, and are most certainly going to fill that
niche.
7) KDE vs. Gnome is a sore point. They don't know what they're going to do.
Don't ask.
8) They are hinting towards dumping the "Professional" vs.
"Enterprise" distinction and going with a single version, probably
with an 18 month release schedule and up to 5 year life cycle.
9) Novell is going to honor ALL SuSE life cycles that have been announced. This
means they YoU will be kept around until 9.0's end of life. I believe it's
three or four years, but I don't know off the top of my head.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: DaveAtFraud on Sunday, November 09 2003 @ 02:21 AM EST |
| One of SCO's favorite shills, Laura DiDio, provided an "independent analyst's
view" of the combined Novell/SuSE entity and deemed it to be a prime takeover target. My question given Laura's previous SCO
cheerleading is, how is this perception beneficial to SCO? ---
Quietly
implementing RFC 1925 wherever I go. [ Reply to This | # ]
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