SUSE Linux Acquisition

jryan · Post by **jryan** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:31 pm

Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux Technology Company SUSE LINUX

PROVO, Utah — Nov. 04, 2003 — Novell today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the world's leading enterprise Linux companies, expanding Novell's ability to provide enterprise-class services and support on the Linux platform. With the open source expertise of SUSE LINUX and Novell's world-class networking and identity solutions and support, training and consulting services, Novell will be able to deliver Linux and all its components — from the server to the desktop — and give organizations a secure, reliable and mature Linux foundation. (View the press release Here )

So, Novell has purchased SUSE and Ximian, RedHat seems to be leaning more towards retail from what I've seen (So much so that Red Hat 9 ISO downloads are cut off becuase of too many users.), but with Novell and IBM backing this Linux venture, it could be interesting to see how big of a player Linux becomes in the operating system world.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:39 pm

I thought it was suse buying novell?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:58 pm

It's scarry how all these linux distros are slowly disapearing like this. Open source will end up turning into yet another pay software industry. There's still allot of free distros such as mandrake and freebsd but it's only till a matter of time till some other company buys them out. It's good in a way, but bad in the other.

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wldkos · Post by **wldkos** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:39 am

No red, the business and enterpise verision of the distro is what costs money, as well as the regular ones you use. They are based on like charity for the most part and you usually are much better off buying the cd's since they come with a lot more stuff and tech support. When a company says that they are going into the business end of the world, that just means they are branching off like red hat, and leaving behind fedora.

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