On Thursday 13 November 2003 08:57 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On November 13, 2003 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Quote from "The Globe and Mail" about the Novell takeover of > > S.u.S.E. : > > > > <quote> > > There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking > > Linux too. The financially troubled Mandrake Linux is ripe for > > plucking, especially by a company such as Hewlett-Packard Co., There are some Mandrake Laptops at HP now seems to be an Engineering Evaluation thing. > > which a few weeks ago delayed release of its next version of HP-UX, > > a version of UNIX, by as much as a year. And then there's Xandros > > Linux, which just yesterday released a new version, this one > > offering compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs, including > > MS Office and MS networks. > > > > By the time the dust settles, the Linux shocks will emerge as the > > most serious challenge Microsoft has ever faced. > > > > The earth clearly hasn't finished moving. > > </quote> > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Provided that the bulk of the management, developers and community remains > in place and provided that the desktop focus stays I don't see a problem > with this. That said, I'm doubtful it will happen. Though, of course, I > thought the same thing about HP snapping up that loser Compaq. > > In many ways it does make sense. IBM, after being snake bit by M$, isn't > putting it's eggs in one basket. Hence the bankrolling of RedHat and the > kinda backdoor financing of Novell's pick on SuSE. HP would, then, seem > logical. > > If such a thing comes to pass there would be reason for M$ to be worried. > Two of it's main FUD attacks will be gone. One that there is no support > from a major vendor and the second that open source is designed to drive > profit driven companies out of business. > > The other thing is the sense of inevitability as Linux moves into the > server and corporate mainstream. SuSE and Mandrake both lack the resources > that Red Hat has to compete in that space. That doesn' t mean that they > aren't good competitors it's just that Red Hat has a pocket full of > thousand dollar bills while they're sitting there with 20s. > > Something good will come of all this if these big companies don't forget > the strength of Linux is in communities and the developers. If not, well, > we'll have to wait and see. > > ttfn > > John
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