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Re: Goodbye SuSE, SuSE Goodbye
Posted by: Paul Murphy 2003-11-13 11:59:23

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Last week, Novell announced its purchase of SuSE for $210 million -- $50 million of it direct from an IBM investment in newly issued convertible preferred stock. This deal raises two difficult questions: What's Novell up to, and why, if the people behind SuSE wanted to cash out, didn't they do an IPO? I suspect this eventually will turn out to be a pivotal transaction in the history of Linux, one fraught with potentials that nearly all of us will wish we had understood at the time.

Re: Goodbye SuSE, SuSE Goodbye
Posted by: amnw14545 2003-11-13 12:56:23 In reply to: Paul Murphy

Yep, Novell made lots of mistakes.
However, this time Novell are directed by IBM.
IBM are making no mistakes.