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Why Should Sun Stop at Novell - Why Not Buy SCO Too?

As discussed at LinuxWorld.com earlier in the week, Sun is possibly contemplating using its substantial cash reserves to buy Novell. Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz blogged that Sun had been thinking about acquiring Novell because it would disrupt IBM's strategy of boxing in Red Hat - so Red Hat won't become another ungovernable Microsoft impudently competing more and more with IBM's own products.

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#5	Frederick Schmidt commented on the 9 Aug 2004 I do think Schwartz has it right - IBM is really stuck if novell falls into someone else's hands. Red Hat is coming up their tail pipe, and IBM has zero control. Looks like they repeated their microsoft mistake - AGAIN!!!
#4	A person commented on the 8 Aug 2004 Its so great to see rightwing hatetrash posted in response to tech news. But about the actual article. I worked at IBM on project Monterey. A bunch of SCO people worked with us on it too. Of course all those poor folks were subsequently booted when the company was farmed off to the current pack of vultures, but at the time it was a close partnership. Only reason things didn't work out was that the Intel Itanium was garbage. Sun won't buy SCO unless they want to voluntarily inherit an unlimited amount of bad karma and jump down a rabbithole of disaster. Novell is basically worthless. And come to think of it, Maureen O'Gara is a muckraking nitwit for even posting "news" like this. Trying to get someone to quote your awesome newsletter as a "source" Maureen?
#3	Smithy commented on the 7 Aug 2004 Cowardly creep from moveon.org : "bin laden is not in america, so therefore can not be "the most hated man in america". Rubbish! You don't have to live in America to be the most hated man in America! Hitler was more hated by Americans at one time than anyone else, and he never lived in this country before, as far as I can determine! Same thing with , Stalin, Gaddafi and even Saddam Hussein at some time in history. The most hated man in America is the man Americans hate the most, and where I come from, Bin Laden takes first prize, closely followed by your psycho pal Michael Moore, the fat, ugly, smelly white man! How me even ONE single recognized poll that says George Bush and Darl McBride are the most hated people in America. Just one! Pathetic, cowardly, Bush-hating silme ball : And I would probably have to agree that bush is the most hated man in america " You would think that wouldn't you, you and every other Al Qaeda operative and terrorist out there. After all 10 out of 10 terrorists want anyone but Bush as American president, because Bush has done more against Islamic terrorists than any American president in history! Terrorists simply love John Kerry, and his extremist, hard line anti-American, 20 year voting record in the US Senate, so much so that Kerry couldn't even mention his record in the US Senate during his acceptance speech! No surprise there! Another thing, down in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and every single southern state, George Bush continues to be far more popular than Slick Willie Clinton ever was, including Clinton's own home state of Arkansas, where they know him better than anywhere else. Yet another thing, I'll back President Bush's popularity against any of the loony left crazies that keep spewing out hate any day. Hopefully we can get Fox News Channel to run a proper poll pitting George Bush against the leftwing nuts like Fat Michael Moore, Al Frankenstein and see who is more hated in this country. I'll back President Bush against these clowns any day, any time!
#2	GenderBender commented on the 6 Aug 2004 Actually the writer (Maureen O'Gara) is a "she" not a "he" - just for the record :)
#1	Saravanan commented on the 6 Aug 2004 The writer must be new to this field. Let him write on some other things.

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