“The ‘Art of War,’ the oldest military treatise in the world,
tells aspiring generals to divide and conquer. For a certain open
source operating system, this may be the approach needed to win the
inevitable desktop battle.“With the release of Linux Desktop 9, which is powered by SuSE
Linux, Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. has taken a self-described
more practical view of how companies should look at open source
adoption on the desktop, a view that involves identifying where
Linux works best and starting the quest for the desktop
there…”