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Posted in Novell, OpenSUSE, SLES/SLED at 11:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Novell is a yawner
Summary: More evidence of inaction from Novell’s adopter and inaction from SUSE developers (who cannot offer more than their GNU/Linux counterparts)
Attachmate was recently mentioned for its general neglect of Novell products. We’ve managed to spot an Attachmate sponsorship, their staff writing articles, and even customers that they have, but examples are very few.
=> general neglect of Novell products | ↺ Attachmate sponsorship | ↺ writing articles | ↺ customers that they have
In more prominent articles we find some shuffling down under, including this one which mentions Novell:
=> ↺ prominent articles | ↺ this one
Attachmate has appointed Ian Graystone as channel sales director for its Novell and NetIQ operations in Australia.
What can be done for Novell at this stage? We see its products declining in the market and one of the only emerging areas — that which is associated with Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux — is now in Germany (SUSE).
=> its products declining in the market
An announcements was sent a short while ago about the beta of OpenSUSE 12.1 and The H wrote:
=> ↺ the beta of OpenSUSE 12.1
Following a more than one week delay, the openSUSE project has announced the release of a first beta of version 12.1 of its openSUSE operating system. Originally called Milestone 6, this release is aimed at developers, testers and early adopters, and was reclassified as a beta in September; this was done in order to give it a higher profile in the hope that it would receive more extensive testing. It will be followed by two release candidates (RCs); the final version is scheduled to arrive on 11 November 2011.
More about the GNOME side can be found in Jamie Watson’s detailed analysis which starts as follows:
=> ↺ about | ↺ detailed analysis
The next release of openSuSE, 12.1 (code named Asparagus), made it to Beta release over the weekend. I actually wrote about this ten days or so ago, when it should have originally been released, but it was delayed at that time. Now that it is out, in addition to simply mentioning the availability, I decided to have a quick look at their Gnome distribution, which is now using Gnome 3. The default desktop is the same as Gnome 3 under Fedora…
So why not use Fedora then? Red Hat is not in the pocket of Microsoft, unlike SUSE. Back in the days, before Novell signed that treasonous deal with Microsoft, SUSE had actually innovated. It made 3-D desktop effects before Vista was even available and it also made some new menus that exist to this date (e.g. SLAB). Back then there was actually a reason to choose SUSE, as I did too.
We are doing to research and write more about Novell in the weekend. █
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