SuSE Users' Panic Unfounded
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 11/04/2005 - 22:11.
Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false.
A Linux Today story, which asked the rhetorical question "Why has Novell management decided to discontinue their entire SuSE Linux branded desktop and workstation product line?" seems to have been the source of these stories.
Greg Mancusi-Ungaro, Novell Inc.'s director of marketing for Linux and open source, said, "Novell has a Linux desktop leadership position with NLD [Novell Linux Desktop] and SuSE 10, and we intend to keep the pedal down hard."
"The SuSE Linux teams are largely untouched," Mancusi-Ungaro added. "Novell is focusing more on areas that are strategic, and the desktop is definitely one of them."


10% layoff at Novell created rumours galore ?
Novell has a technology issue to solve with Suse leading Novell from hard disk drive network system to ramdisk network system. Desktops are the largest number of network client stations. This concept is not yet fathomed out of Novell ranks; let alone a new president to ponder the profit issues facing novell's declining revenue. Restructure of the Novell old guards and switch to livecd Suse is a must. Old Novell servers have to be repositories for large ramdisk instant network of unstructured files or packet storage with advanced search engines. New products of hardware and software will easily revive Novell's installed base. The future is very bright. Footnote: Novell's x:(server) has to be in ramdisk of each suse operating system then unionfs to terabyte hard disk repositories(even USB), rather than only in hdd servers. Novell network operating system for windows will need also ramdisk network with data compression x: to speed up network and use time zone repositoriues for data storage. Synchronized enterprise time zone repositories relieves denial of service.