[H-GEN] Novell buys Ximian Inc.

[Sarah Hollings]

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Sandra Milne wrote:
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> Since nobody else has mentioned it, I'll speak up.
> 
> This week Novell purchased Ximian Inc. From all the articles I've seen 
> about it, they did this to expand their contributions to Open Source 
> (paraphrasing).
> 
> Is anyone else working in a Novell environment and excited to think that 
> soon Evolution might be GroupWise compatible? I'm excited to see 
> anything that isn't java based :-)
> 
> Anyone else got any comments? All "Novell is dead" comments will be 
> directed to /dev/null

<pie loc="in the sky">
Novells' excellent LDAP directory services implementation would be a 
great thing to give to the Open Source community, or perhaps partner in 
some way with OpenLDAP, which is still pushing ahead but quite limited 
compared to the enterprise scale implementations from Netscape and 
Novell etc.  If you're a small to medium company you could build a 
pretty good mail setup on free software, but put an OpenLDAP backend on 
that and you've got some scaling limitations.  Novell could make a 
really huge impact on OSS/Free software takeup in the corp-world
</pie>

There's a few Novell implementations around here alive and well, not 
under my control tho'.  Its definintely not dead.  ;-)
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