Novell Dumps the Hula Project 440
asv108 writes, "On the Hula general mailing list today, it was announced that Novell is no longer providing full-time developers to Hula. While the project will continue, it appears that Novell is not committed to developing a viable open-source alternative to MS Exchange. The Hula project was announced in February 2005 with much fanfare."
No full time developers (Score:5, Funny)
Come to think of it, is there such a thing as part-time developers?
salt/wound? (Score:5, Funny)
What? (Score:4, Funny)
NOW I've seen everything.
Customers left stranded! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Coincidence? I think not (Score:5, Funny)
How weird, my nose is growing.
2007: In other news (Score:4, Funny)
The company also states that it will soon release it own version of CIFS after the SAMBA organisation was sued into bankruptcy.
Linux-based Exchange server? (Score:3, Funny)
From the Hula Project web site: [hula-project.org]
So if Novell has taken all their FT developers off Hula, are we to assume that Microsoft is now going to offer a Linux-native version of the Exchange server? I mean, come on. If Microsoft-Novell is really serious with their "we are working on Linux-Windows interoperability" then they're dropping out of Hula in order to work on their Linux-native of the Exchange server, right??
I mean, the only other possibility is that Microsoft "asked" Novell to stop supporting a direct competitor for a Microsoft product. And that would just be silly of them, wouldn't it...
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Re:Competition? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Linux-based Exchange server? (Score:1, Funny)
I know. Maybe Novel pulled their full-time developers off Hula because Microsoft is about to assign some of their developers to work on it full-time? Or maybe both an official Linux server and client for Exchange? You know, to enhance interoperability?
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Re:Coincidence? I think not (Score:5, Funny)
NO... never... They wouldn't do a thing like that...
Anyway next weeks update to SLES10 will include the following features
a) OpenOffice has been updated to load/save Word documents by default and Macros will run by default.
b) Firefox has been updated to use MSN as it's homepage and default search engine
c) Evolution has been patched to try and execute all email attachments when you view an email.
d) All the above programs now need to be run as root
Ping... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Coincidence? I think not (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement (Score:1, Funny)
Re:salt/wound? (Score:4, Funny)