[lug] Interesting news

[Gary Hodges]

Jeffrey Brown wrote:
> Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux
> Technology Company SUSE LINUX

Well, what the hell am I to think about this?  Here I am right on the 
cusp of getting everyone in my group behind SuSE because of their good 
distribution and business model that is well suited to our group.

I'm just blindsided in a sense.  At the distribution meeting I wanted to 
make sure SuSE was not going to change their business model.  Repeatedly 
I was told that SuSE is a private company with no plans to go public. 
Now there are public since Novell is a public company.  OK, I'm not 
beating on anyone there because how could any of us have known about 
this deal.  But man, am I going to get everyone in my group on board and 
then in Jan 04 is there going to be an enterprise line?

We are a small outfit.  We've gone from Red Hat to KRUD and are moving 
to SuSE all in the span of about four months.  We just want something 
that will be there, in a stable sense, for a long time.  Like I said, we 
are a small group and this is all bugging us, and by us I mean me, and I 
can only imagine what a large organization might be dealing with.

Gary