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SearchEnterpriseLinux: SuSE CEO on SCO Suit, UnitedLinux and More

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 11, 2003

What are your short-term and long-term goals for SuSE
Linux?

Seibt: What we at SuSE are doing is weaving
the values of the open-source community with the solidity of
traditional IT. What do I mean? The open-source community is the
world’s largest and most creative development lab. These guys work
on Linux to solve their own problems–and they have a great deal of
pride. They also produce fixes faster than anyone I’ve ever
seen.

“Now–bring all that creativity, pride and dedication to bear to
help solve business problems. You have an amazing synergy there. We
at SuSE bring technology, processes and business practices to bear
that are unique in our industry. We have all the same properties as
a software company, without the kernel development costs and with
the tremendous innovative capabilities of the open-source
community…”


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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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