Re: [SLUG] RH vs Novell was Linux Certification

From: John Pugh (jpugh@novell.com)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2006 - 11:46:47 EST


>>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2006 at 11:06 AM, in message
<200603081106.51576.jasonb@edseek.com>, Jason Boxman <jasonb@edseek.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:01, John Pugh wrote:
> <snip>
>> Europe is where SUSE remains the strongest. You need to understand
>> where RH get's most of their sales from...it's thru OEM partners like
>> Dell who accounts for the bulk of their business. That is changing and
>> while it doesn't happen overnight, it will turn.
>
> And yet SuSE dumped KDE last I recalled, which is quite popular in Europe.
> Regular users aren't really thrilled over that, even if large companies
> couldn't care less what's on the Linux desktop.

Robin answered it. SUSE has not and will not dump KDE. SUSE continues to be the #1 contributor to KDE.
The fact is that we will default to GNOME. That's it. KDE and GNOME will have the same focus.
http://www.novell.com/prblogs/index.php?title=kde_and_gnome&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
Great comments on this blog.

JP

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