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<div style="">As a side point, there are some other indicators that I am unwilling to share on a public list.<br>
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Feel free to ask me my opinion at a meeting though.<br>
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Peripherally related to all this, does anyone have solid information on the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split and Oracle and Novell's respective involvements?<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF171907"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Matthew Nuzum [newz@bearfruit.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:09<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Ubuntu's changing look<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:49 AM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net" target="_blank">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">At 10:27 AM 11/2/2010, you wrote:<br>
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>Today Novell canceled the availability of multi-year<br>
>support. Practically, this means that if you purchase SLES (or any<br>
>of the multitude of Novell's half-built other products), you have<br>
>renew support on a yearly basis. This likely indicates that the<br>
>company is having cash flow problems.<br>
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>Interesting business changes may appear in the coming year.<br>
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A few weeks ago there was a blurb indicating that Novell is in merger<br>
talks with VMWare, .. so this sounds like fallout from that process.<br>
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If anyone has other insight, .. ??<br>
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I've heard mixed signals, though more like smoke signals than sign posts.
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<div>1: GNOME community feels Novell is neglecting the open source projects it's sponsored by not replacing ximian people who have left.</div>
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<div>2: Utah OSS conference a few weeks ago had, not too surprisingly, a strong showing from Novell and lots of up-beat talk.</div>
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<div>The word I'm hearing is that Novell is focusing their message on solutions rather than Linux. I subscribe to some newsletters from them and personally I think their perspective is smart. As an IT person I care more about solving problems than I do about
the tools I use to solve them.</div>
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<div>However, these last two points don't really contradict what Josh said, it's easy to put on a good face and fatal to show you're wounded.</div>
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