Novell buying SuSE...

QCumberQCumber Edmonton AB Canada
edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
...and with IBM's blessing, no less:

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5101680.html?tag=nefd_lede

You gotta wonder if Steve Ballmer is perspiring heavily this morning... :)

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Happy Birthday, AND welcome to the forums, QCumber.... ;)
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    Don't forget that MS screwed with IBM on the OS/2 operating system.

    Old grudges die hard in the computer business...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    IBM screwed itself with OS/2. IBM made an entire open source computer initiative, backed out, and expected everyone to follow them on OS/2. Oops.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    http://www.millennium-technology.com/HistoryOfOS2.html

    1990 - The Schism

    In 1990, IBM and Microsoft were still working together on the development of OS/2. Microsoft, however, had found that Windows 3.0 - released in May 1990 - generated more revenue for them and therefore allotted increasingly more resource to Windows and correspondingly less to OS/2.

    By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT.

    MS did play a large role in turfing OS/2 out the window, but IBM was the final nail in the coffin. :D
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited November 2003
    Good news. That's why Novell's stock jumped 32% today on the NYSE.
  • flamingpeachflamingpeach Ontario, Canadia
    edited November 2003
    I have a lot of respect for novell, I really think they can take SUSE places.

    It'll be interesting to see what will be happening with it by this time next year.

    :)
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Welcome to the forums, flamingpeach... What a creepy avatar, though! ;D
  • t1rhinot1rhino Toronto
    edited November 2003
    Where in Canadia are you? :D
  • flamingpeachflamingpeach Ontario, Canadia
    edited November 2003
    Thanks for the welcome guys. :)

    I <3 my avatar. :o
    t1rhino had this to say
    Where in Canadia are you? :D


    t1rhino, I'm in London, Ontario.
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