<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">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<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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</div>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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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>I've heard mixed signals, though more like smoke signals than sign posts.<div><br></div><div>1: GNOME community feels Novell is neglecting the open source projects it's sponsored by not replacing ximian people who have left.</div>
<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><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><div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
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