Sun Thinks About Buying Novell, Just To Upset IBM
from the no-other-reason,-really dept
It appears that Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz has no problems tossing out a few provocative statements to get some headlines or to push a competitor to make an ill-advised move. The latest is the idea that Sun might consider buying Novell, solely for the purpose of taking control of SuSe Linux and upsetting IBM's plans to push companies towards SuSe instead of Red Hat (who has become "too strong" according to Schwartz). While Sun may actually be thinking about such a move (though, it seems unlikely), it is amusing to see Schwartz using interviews and his blog to try to goad IBM into making a move. It really looks like the only point of this discussion isn't to have Sun actually think about buying Novell, but to scare IBM into hastily making a bad move (possibly buying Novell, themselves).
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No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward on Aug 2nd, 2004 @ 10:06am
Sun does use SUSE for the basis of it's "Java" Desktop.....
I doubt this would be a good thing for Solaris.
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Ximian Mono? by Anonymous Coward on Aug 2nd, 2004 @ 11:28am
This could be Sun's attempt to kill off Mono, the opensource implementation of MS.NET, otherwise known as Java's main competitor.....
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Not to Worrie by Anonymous Coward on Aug 4th, 2004 @ 7:47am
You know... I was thinking of sleeping over in the Lincon room of the White House... just to piss Bush off.
...but it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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