Novell achète Suse

http://www.novell.com/news/press/ar...03069.html

* Novell expands its open source commitment and will become the
* first to offer comprehensive Linux solutions for the enterprise
* from the desktop to the server
* Novell will be the only $1 billion software company with a Linux
* distribution and the worldwide technical staff to support it
* Novell/SUSE LINUX to become the worlds largest supplier of
* desktop-to-server Linux solutions and technical support
* Customers to gain worldwide technical support for enterprise Linux
* solutions from a company with more than 20 years of operating
* system experience
* IBM and Novell to negotiate extensions to commercial agreement
* with Novell/SUSE LINUX to support the IBM eServer line

PROVO, Utah Nov. 04, 2003 Novell today announced it has entered into
an agreement to acquire SUSE LINUX, one of the worlds leading enterprise
Linux companies, expanding Novells ability to provide enterprise-class
services and support on the Linux platform. With the open source
expertise of SUSE LINUX and Novells world-class networking and identity
solutions and support, training and consulting services, Novell will be
able to deliver Linux and all its components from the server to the
desktop and give organizations a secure, reliable and mature Linux
foundation. Novell will pay $210 million in cash to complete the
acquisition. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the
winding up of shareholder agreements. Novell expects the transaction to
close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004).


Voilà une nouvelle qui va faire plaisir à tous les fans de la GPL.


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Michel TALON