From: Jeff Shultz 

Adam Flinton wrote:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32145.html
>
> "Novell is beefing up its Linux play with the cahs acquisition of
> Ximian. The company has confirmed that it will continue to support
> Ximian-sponsored Mono and GNOME open source projects.
>
> Mono, Spanish for Monkey, is, we guess, the more visionary, of the two.
> This will enable Linux developers to create and deploy .NET apps on
> Linux in languages other than C#.
>
> GNOME is the Linux desktop/GUI that some prefer to KDE.
>
> Ximian's totemic open source developers (and co-founders), Miguel de
> Icaza and Nat Friedman, will continue to do their same jobs wearing
> Novell hats.
>
> Ximian also has some real live products to call its own, notably Ximian
> Red Carpet, a centralised software management technology. Overtime, Red
> Carpet is to be tightly integrated into Novell ZenWork, Novell says."
>
>
> A) Bets on continued Mono Support?
>
> B) Hooooflippingray for both Xim & Novell. I reckon this is a very good
> deal for both.
>
> Adam

Ximian, it was nice to have known you. Novell should manage to destroy you
in about 6 months to a year.

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Jeff Shultz

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