Ximian acquired by Novell
Posted on August 4, 2003
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Ximian Inc. has been acquired by Novell Inc. in a cash deal, details not disclosed.
This is a huge deal that will bring lagitimacy to Linux on the desktop in enterprise for the few sceptics that still exist. Novell has faded from its dominace of the NOS long ago, but always (even today) had a solid product, with an excellent reputation. The creation of the new Novell Ximian Services will expand and improve on the extensive Ximian suite of tools, that are already being used for large enterprise deployments supplanting Solaris and Win(what ever version you were forced to by last).
Novell has always been slow to get to the party, they came out with an excellent GUI about a month after Win3.1. We know how that turned out, since it is now a relic of Silicon Valley Trivia. It finally embrased Linux earlier this year. But what Novell brings to the dance is the clout and a history of quality product. In the past that quality cost a pretty penny, hence the cheaper WinNT’s rise to dominace. With the revolution in licensing of software, cost of development falls dramatically and will then be reflected in the competitively priced products that continue to out perform the competition in cost of use and the use/productivity ratio.
Read more from; the Press release, Miguel, Nat, Linux Today.
Off to do my Red Carpet update.
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