Novell and Linux

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Novell announced changes including SUSE developer jobs cuts this week:

Contrary to what was expected from recent Novell announcements, Novell executives are apparently slicing deeply into the Linux heart of the company. Jobs and resources are actually being slashed in several areas previously dubbed by Novell management as "key component parts of Novell's Linux developments": staffers working on Mono, Hula, Evolution and Desktop Strategy are getting the sack.

SUSE customers around the world will be shocked and puzzled by this management decision. If they feel like I do, they'll liken the recent Novell moves to the ones we witnessed at Sun Microsystems--a management team that doesn't know what direction they want to head and changes course every other week.

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Kurt Pfeifle, a KDE developer, stated in his Linux today story that, "Contrary to what was expected from recent Novell announcements, Novell executives are apparently slicing deeply into the Linux heart of the company."

"Nonsense," replied one senior Novell open-source engineer to this comment.

Kevan Barney, Novell's senior public relations manager, said, "The Linux teams are largely intact, and the desktops aren't going away. Pfeifle went on to write, "staffers working on Mono, Hula, Evolution and Desktop Strategy are getting the sack."

While cuts are being made across the company, Mancusi-Ungaro emphasized that "Novell is not pulling the plug on the desktop. We feel we lead it today, and we look forward to the next generation of the desktop. The desktop is in the core set of Novell open enterprise stack of data center, workgroup and desktop, identify and resource management."

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