Novell Not Pushing Ximian Onto SuSE

dhunley writes "According to TechCentral, a recent story on Novell's plans following the acquisition of both SuSE and Ximian comments that 'SuSE will continue (to operate) as a business unit of its own', according to John Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific region. 'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux'."

Ximian...

[Unnngh!]

Once they merge, we can finally see S-imian, the new user-friendly desktop monkey butler!

capital letters

[Anonymous Coward]

'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux'

12 capital letters in one sentence. The grammar gods will bow down to you.

Re:Novell showing wisdom

[aml666]

Just like AOL incorporated Netscape into it's... no wait aminute.

Re:I'll try SuSE

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you misspelled "Debian".

This is as ridiculous as it gets

[niom]

'We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux.'

In other words, on the long term KDE will not remain the default GUI.

This reminds me of the recent article on deconstruction where the author analyzed the affirmation "JFK was not a homosexual" to be a proof of the inherent homophobia in our society. But he was being absurd on purpose.

That'll be the best thing since...

[siskbc]

Once they merge, we can finally see S-imian, the new user-friendly desktop monkey butler!

...MS Bob. Wonder if they can hire Melinda Gates as a consultant?

Re:What does it really mean?

[Ralph Yarro]

But, can someone with a little more market savvy explain what is in Novell's best interest in the long run?

In the long run they should use [favored desktop] and ONLY [favored desktop]. The [other dekstop] is light years behind technologically and is only supported by trolls and zealots. [Favored dekstop] is so fast now it's amazing, I installed the latest beta the other day and I was amazed how fast it ran. It's also so stable now. And the default theme is just beautiful. Not like [other desktop] which is just eye candy. Yes, [favored desktop] has had its problems but it's way past them now. EVERYONE I know or have ever heard of uses [favored desktop] anyway, there's no point in supporting anything else.

Knovell... or Gnovell?

[axxackall]

If the will merge Ximian with Suse into Simian, then they'll have a problem to name their own company: should they call it Knovell or Gnovell after that? Well, as for the new user-friendly desktop, I am sure they'll call it Knome :)