[Cialug] Ubuntu's changing look

[Josh More]

As a side point, there are some other indicators that I am unwilling to share on a public list.

Feel free to ask me my opinion at a meeting though.

Peripherally related to all this, does anyone have solid information on the OpenOffice/LibreOffice split and Oracle and Novell's respective involvements?

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Matthew Nuzum [newz at bearfruit.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 11:09
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Ubuntu's changing look

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:49 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net<mailto:lvl at omnitec.net>> wrote:
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, .. ??


I've heard mixed signals, though more like smoke signals than sign posts.

1: GNOME community feels Novell is neglecting the open source projects it's sponsored by not replacing ximian people who have left.

2: Utah OSS conference a few weeks ago had, not too surprisingly, a strong showing from Novell and lots of up-beat talk.

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.

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.

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