On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:44:02AM -0600, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I find it interesting the amount of support being displayed for SuSe > being gobbled up by Novel, at the command of IBM. I don't see why it's > good for IBM to put $50m in to Novel and for Novel to buy SuSe, other > then to eliminate the competition. It's possible the buyout could be a good thing for SuSE. Back around 2000, Red Hat had a very successful IPO. Unfortunately, SuSE was unable to complete an IPO in time to cash in on the dot-com bubble and now is not a great time for a SuSE IPO. The Novell buyout could help solidify the financial future of SuSE. -- Joel Schneider joel at joelschneider.net Linux makes computing fun again. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list