[TriLUG] Novell going the Linux way

John Franklin franklin at elfie.org
Fri Apr 18 09:13:41 EDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:22:23PM -0400, John Beimler wrote:
> and here's what the CEO has to say:
> 
> /"Linux is an immature operating system," he continued. "It hasn't had 
> somebody like Novell worrying about making it robust, reliable and 
> scalable. We think we can bring that to the Linux kernel." - Jack 
> Messman, Chairman and CEO of Novell/
> 
> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121012&liFlavourID=1&sp=1
> 
> Because we all know that Red Hat, IBM and of course SCO (Caldera) have 
> added nothing..


You're not the only one to notice.... see below.




On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 12:31:01AM -0700, Owen Thomas wrote:
>       D I T H E R A T I
>       see the digerati dither, daily
> 
>         WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS MICROSOFT?
> 
>       "Linux is an immature operating system. It hasn't had somebody
>       like Novell worrying about making it robust, reliable and scalable."
> 
>           Novell CEO Jack Messman, on how he expects the moribund Utah
>           software firm will do more for Linux than lightweights like
>           IBM, Sun, and HP, ComputerWeekly, 16 April 2003
> 
> http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=121012
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