Novell to Acquire SUSE LINUX

http://www.novell.com/news/press/pressroom/webcast.html

This seems to be a company that has no idea what they want to be in the market place.  I remember a few years back Novell ended up the owner of UNIX.  At one time they had a huge interest in Caldera Linux.  Now they want to buy SUSE and build Netware to run on top of Linux?    Lately I have been finding more and more value in running a Linux operating system and open source software applications and services.  I am finding more and more that previous concerns I had about support for free products are changing.  I have a harder time these days getting support that has been paid for that getting support from other users and in less time.  In my opinion this is nothing more than Novell trying to tell customers they have something worth buying.  If administrators want to run Linux then they should just run Linux.  They don’t need something like Netware running on top of it.  If they like Netware they should just stick with it.  There is plenty of software out there that will provide for all the needs that Netware will provide and it won’t cost thousand of dollars in Licensing.  Take a look at www.freshmeat.net and www.sourceforge.net before you buy Netware for Linux.  Make sure you are paying for something of value and not just compiled versions of software someone has already offered for free.

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