Novell Buys Suse

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 4 23:06:50 UTC 2003


I guess you haven't been following the news lately.  IBM is also buying 
a chunk of Novell, so they seem to think it's a good idea.

Then, Novell buying SuSe certainly knocks the wind out of SCOs sails, 
WRT SuSe any way.

And Red Hat seems to be getting out of the personal market, focusing on 
"enterprise".


gbell72 wrote:
> My personal take on this is..anyone that has previously made a stock
> investment in novell are the only ones going to prosper.  This surely is
> helping suse out on the american side..but how well can they compete with
> rhat who sell box sets almost dirt cheap?
> IMO, whoever bought novell stocks when they were in the $2 range and rode
> it out till they topped today at almost $8.90 a share are the real
> winners.
> 
> Garnder
> 
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> 
>>Novell to MS: it's payback time! LOL!
>>
>>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5101680.html
>>
>>Puts a new wrinkle in the SCO case too, apparently.
>>
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