[NTLUG:Discuss] red hat server revisited

[Michael]

Ummm.....

SuSE was bought by Novell last week.

I haven't chased down what this means in dollar terms, but I'm expecting 
SuSE's next version to have licensing terms very similar to those proposed by 
SCO's death threats. 

This leaves Mandrake, Slack and Debian  the main trunks of free linux. 

On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:58 pm, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> MontyS at videopost.com wrote:
> ...
>
> > After looking at the options, it appeared that the Red Hat Advanced
> > Server/Oracle 9i database was the way to go.  Much of this decision was
> > based on price.  This is before Red Hat changed their structure and
> > pricing policy.
>
> ...
>
> > Am I missing something?  I guess I could look at SuSE, but with Novell's
> > recent purchase of them, I am a little gun shy there as well.
> >
> > Please tell me I am missing something.
>
> I think you just missing a little bit of faith. :-)  SuSE also has an
> Oracle certified version.  Personally, I've give that a good hard look;
> they don't charge yearly fees IIRC.  I really don't think you have anything
> to worry about with Novell buying SuSE.  Novell *needs* SuSE to work and
> grow, witness IBM's $50M help as a show of support.
>
> Kevin
>
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