Questioning RH's decisions to remain a viable and independent company?

[Martin Sturm]

Op di 04-11-2003, om 16:00 schreef Albert DE WINT:
> Op di 04-11-2003, om 15:13 schreef Marc Schwartz:
> > Novell Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Enterprise Linux
> > Technology Company SUSE LINUX
> > 
> > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html
> > 
> > Keep in mind that this follows Novell's acquisition of Ximian....The
> > consolidation of the commercially viable Linux market continues....
> > 
> > Any care to speculate on who will acquire Mandrake and when?
> 
> You have a point. Given the financial situation of Mandrake, I suppose
> they must be dying to sell.
> 
> Maybe, one day some Linux distro will be accused of creating a monopoly
> ;-) 
> 
> (Déjà vu?)

I prefer a Linux distribution owning a monopoly on the operation system
market over Microsoft. A Linux-distro, at least most parts of it, are
fully open-source, so it is easy to use an alternative-distro or
operation system because standards, fileformats etc. are open. 

More interesting: Will Ximian still be available for Red Hat base
operating systems? Ximian Desktop was already available for SuSE, but i
can imagen that Ximian will stop supporting Red Hat.

Martin

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