Where Novell & SUSE Linux goes from here

Paula Rooney has covered the innovation industry for more than 15 years, starting with semiconductor design and mini-computer systems at EDN News and later focused on PC software companies including Microsoft, Lotus, Oracle, Red Hat, Novell and other open source and commercial software companies for CRN and PCWeek. She received a silver award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2005 for her profile on Linus Torvalds and edited and co-authored "Partnering With Microsoft," a book about Microsoft's channel published by CMP Publishing in 2004. Rooney graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1997. In her off time, she enjoys scuba diving, sailing, sun worshipping, running and reading. She resides on the shores of Scituate, Massachusetts.

As for SUSE Linux, it returns to its Germany roots with Nils Brauckmann in charge. In an interview Brauckmann told me, “By operating SUSE as a separate business unit focused on the Linux marketplace, we can accelerate our delivery of high-value Linux solutions that help organizations enhance growth, reduce costs, tame complexity and spur research. We have the world-class engineering resources, partners and state-of-the-art technologies to succeed. Now we are sharpening our focus on making SUSE Linux Enterprise the preeminent Linux distribution across physical, virtual and cloud environments.”

Brauckmann as well told me that “We recognize and celebrate the value of the openSUSE Project and will remain a strong supporter of the openSUSE community. We reiterate our long-term commitment to the open source communities at the heart of our ecosystem. Our presence in these communities will help our clients benefit from the rich value of Linux, during encouraging the collaboration that has made Linux the foundation of so many computing environments today.”

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about research and the business of research since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system

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