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Red vs. Green: Penguins, Geckos and Duct Tape

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 2007

[ Thanks to Ross
Brunson
for this link. ]

“Ok, so my title is a little misleading, there’s not any rivalry
between the different areas of Novell and SUSE, other than the
usual desire to see your business unit succeed just a little more
‘betterly’ than the other units do. It’s all about friendly
competition.

“What I’m referring to (with Red vs. Green) is the necessary
dividing line between the traditional Novell business units like
Workgroup (Netware, Open Enterprise Server, Groupwise etc.) which I
think of as ‘Red,’ and the newer and Open Source-centric business
unit called Open Platform Solutions (SLES, SLED, SLERT, SLEPOS
etc.), which I think of as ‘Green…'”


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