WE will no longer keep track of Novell as closely as we have since the company was sold. The reason is, there is not much to cover. SUSE became a tool/marionette of Microsoft just over 7 months ago, Microsoft got Novell's patents more than a year ago, and Novell is being liquidated (physical assets sold). When new releases come out [1, 2, 3, 4] it will make sense to say a few words, but not many releases come out anymore, not under Attachmate's leadership. Why? Because it is too passive, hardly ever caring about Novell.
"SUSE is now just a subsidiary for Microsoft to sell its Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux, primarily at Red Hat's expense."Novell's PR front delivered just two posts in a whole month [1, 2] (it used to be almost daily) and the OpenSUSE site has something to say only about once a week [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. One of those updates is about the demise of OpenSUSE Weekly News and another about a death. SUSE staff moves on to other ventures such as ownCloud and looks for more staff or support [1, 2]. The residue of SUSE is still around, but the SUSE focus is long gone, except in some HOWTOs. SUSE is now just a subsidiary for Microsoft to sell its Microsoft-taxed GNU/Linux, primarily at Red Hat's expense.
Looking at some recently-uploaded videos, we were able to find Novell promotion in YouTube, as well as old press appearances (also in German). We're afraid there's not much more to say about Novell; the company is history, so finding news about it has become very hard. ⬆
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jmmarton
2012-03-10 13:32:28
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2012-03-14 01:13:53
jmmarton
2012-03-14 12:37:41
http://www.novell.com/events/tour2012.html
There's also another similarly named "Novell Tour 2012" visiting over 20 cities in Europe and Africa.
http://www.novell.com/events/tours/novell-tour-2012/
Beyond that, there's a much larger salesforce that's reaching out to customers directly.
As for releases used to be more frequent... how so? In the nearly 20 years I've been around Novell I don't recall releases cycles of 12 months or less.