[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Novell’s purchase of open source email and calendaring system
Ximian initially took Igor Portugal, technical head at local Linux
provider Asterisk, by surprise.“He first heard about the buyout in the news, not from Novell or
Ximian, and says it was ‘an interesting surprise.’“‘We received it with a bit of caution, but after a few
discussions with Novell locally, we’re comfortable with it…'”