[lug] No more RedHat for regular folks!

[Ferdinand Schmid]

You can read the traditional IT publictions and will find that SuSE
won't change its offerings due to the acquisition by Novell.  Novell
needed Linux and SuSE needed a distribution and support channel and
that's what the combined company can do.  

If my sources are correct then the Novell/SuSE company will go after
the RedHat users who don't like the new licensing scheme.  I would bet
on there being an affordable (and cheaper than Windows) version of
SuSE Linux for a long time.  That is part of their bread and butter,
especially in light of Novell's acquisition of Ximian.

Ferdinand

--On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 01:52:08 PM -0700 "Record, James N"
<james.n.record at lmco.com> wrote:

> Red hat has announced that Red Hat Linux (i.e. version 9) will no
> longer be supported or available after April 2004. There will be no
> Red Hat 10!
> Their only products after April will be their various Enterprise
> editions
> that have a yearly subscription fee.
> With Novell buying SUSE and RedHat dropping the desktop, will any
> major company be delivering a reasonably priced desktop Linux?
> 
> Jim in Waterton
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