A nice article on the subject: http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031104.gtnovellnov4/BNStory/Technology/
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:33, Marcel Lecker wrote: > Okay,...massive speculation here, be forwarned. > > One of the common trends within Novell's Ximian & SuSE aquisitions is MS > Exchange compatability and transitioning (which let's face it, is a > pretty daunting prospect and a likley stumbling block for transparent > switchovers). > > SuSE is definitely a player in the e-mial end of things, particlarly > with respect to their Enterprise Mail server (which if memory serves > also provides some services for Outlook users). Great product with > awesome potential in the back end. > > Now, Ximian on the other hand has a piece of software which allows Linux > clients like Ximian's Evolution project to access MS Exchange relatively > transparently. > > Having access to BOTH these technologies, put's Novell in a rather nice > spot to satify, both back-first and front-first Linux transition > strategies. Change the MS clients/keep the MS back end (who knows why, > but I'm sure there are reasons), as well as change the back end, keep > the MS clients. > > With all this technology under one roof together with SuSE Linux > Enterprise offerings for bigger iron as well as Novell's own offerings, > with the added bounus of ::mono (perhaps rolled into the enterprise > offerings for limitted .Net functionality) ....it's starting to shape up > like a VERY potent package. > > The fact that IBM got behind them as quickly as they did, suggests to me > that they're onto something. Perhaps there are bit's that bring it all > together even more, but as ti stands, it appears to be a something that > is more than the the sum of it's parts. > > Tomorrow should be interesting. The timing is extrodrinary. Michael > offered to speak last month, but I already had commitments from a number > of the presenters for our mini-talks last month and asked him to present > this month, which he was quite happy to do. > > Should be a hoot! see you there. > > Marcel > > > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:05, Ian Bruseker wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On November 4, 2003 8:11 am, Kevin Anderson wrote: > > <snip> > > > Dear Novell. > > > You hold the best products on the face of the networking earth. Please > > > tell someone that they are for sale, and they can be bought from you. I'll > > > be ROYALLY pissed off if this just manages to kill SUSE by ending any > > > marketing of it. Ditto for NDS, Groupwise, and ZEN. > > > Thanks. > > > > > Ya, this makes me a little apprehensive too (in ref. to your comment about > > marketing it). Let's hope they don't WordPerfect it. > > > > I also wonder if they're heading for other trouble - first they buy Ximian and > > all their GNOME-ishness, and now they buy SuSE, one of the bigger KDE > > supporters? Are they trying to start an internal war? ;-) But seriously, > > they aren't going to do a bluecurve, are they? > > > > I guess we'll see how the next few months shake out. > > > > Ian > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/p9xiSiY+RXI7JS4RAtVEAKD4cs/Zl03p0RPW1pbll9M6deKn8wCgk2Qd > > gJ2XM3VcnozBVOwpOE3mnIc= > > =rSVD > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Marcel Lecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
