[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso for this link. ]
“Novell has certainly demonstrated its commitment to
Linux since the acquisition of SuSE was announced late last year.
But were there any apprehensions from the people at SuSE at
first?“Juergen Geck: When we started to talk about being acquired by
Novell, there certainly were a couple. By now, they have all
dissolved. I can only say the best about my new colleagues. It’s
really a good thing to have all the muscle for all the ideas we’ve
been cooking up for the last 12 years. When you look at the sales
force we now have selling SuSE Linux on the street worldwide, the
number of support engineers we now have backing them up, and the
kind of background our engineers now have access to bring to the
table, the discussions we have are through the roof when it comes
to operating system design, kernel extensions and
middleware…”