[Cialug] Ubuntu's changing look

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Tue Nov 2 10:49:10 CDT 2010


At 10:27 AM 11/2/2010, you wrote:

>Today Novell canceled the availability of multi-year 
>support.  Practically, this means that if you purchase SLES (or any 
>of the multitude of Novell's half-built other products), you have 
>renew support on a yearly basis.  This likely indicates that the 
>company is having cash flow problems.
>
>Interesting business changes may appear in the coming year.

A few weeks ago there was a blurb indicating that Novell is in merger 
talks with VMWare, .. so this sounds like fallout from that process.

If anyone has other insight, .. ??

         Lee



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