Novell & SUSE: What's next?

摘要

Late last month, The Attachmate Group, a software holding company, completed its acquisition of Novell. Moving forward, Novell and SUSE Linux will operate, alongside NetIQ and Attachmate, as four separate business units—a reorganization that unravels the 2003 SUSE acquisition that established Novell as a Linux and open-source player. In the years following its SUSE pickup, Novell trumpeted its new open-source direction so loudly that if s tough to imagine what a SUSE-free Novell will look like in the future. Between its SUSE Enterprise Linux operating system, its patent and collaboration deals with Microsoft, and its open-source implementation of .NET with Mono, Novell had taken a sane middle path between Microsoft and Linux-centric approaches.