Re-inventing SuSE and Three Futures for Mono | Linux Today

Re-inventing SuSE and Three Futures for Mono

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2011

“Over the past ten days we’ve seen the rolling announcements out
of Attachmate as SuSE gets spun into a separate organization with a
return to Germany and Mono employees (along with many other Novell
employees) find themselves on the outside looking in. I got into an
interesting Twitter discussion with Carlo Daffara and Jan Wildeboer
about the future of Mono.

“I’ve written about Novell’s SuSE positioning over the years and
their need to be more than “We’re-not-Red-Hat”. Mono was always
been a potentially excellent strategic differentiator. But first
you need to understand how Microsoft dropped the ball.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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