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| DATE | 2005-11-10 |
| FROM | From: "Inker, Evan"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Suse co-founder leaves Novell
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Suse co-founder leaves Novell
By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: November 9, 2005, 12:06 PM PT
URL: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5942300.html
Suse co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from
Novell, the server software company that acquired the German Linux company
in 2004.
Mantel announced the move on a Suse Linux mailing list Tuesday, and Novell
confirmed the move Wednesday.
"I just decided to leave Suse/Novell. This is not (any) longer the company I
founded 13 years ago," Mantel said in the e-mail. "I have been the
maintainer of the Suse kernel for more than a decade now. I'm very confident
the Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly."
The move won't affect Novell, spokesman Bruce Lowry said. "He was one of a
large number of people on the kernel team. It doesn't impact our strategy or
our ability to execute on it," he said.
Novell acquired Suse Linux in 2003 for $210 million and has been under
pressure to build its open-source business faster. Novell last week
announced a plan to elevate its Linux products, lay off 600 employees and
divest its Celerant consulting group.
Despite its troubles, Suse Linux is the top alternative to Red Hat and
remains a major factor in the Linux market. It's certified globally to work
with major server and software products, something others haven't achieved.
But Red Hat Enterprise Linux remains much more popular, and Red Hat is much
more profitable.
The cuts at Novell last week were significant, but there was "virtually no
impact" to the Linux development team, Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president and
anticipated chief executive officer, said in an interview last week.
One significant change in Novell's Linux strategy, reported earlier by
eWeek, is the decision to make the GNOME software the default user interface
for its Linux products. That's a sharp change for Suse, which long preferred
the rival KDE project as its default. That preference was complicated by the
fact that another Linux company Novell acquired in 2003, Ximan, specialized
in GNOME.
Another person no longer working for Novell is Chris Schlaeger, vice
president of research and development at Suse Linux, sources familiar with
the situation said. Schlaeger had been a longtime KDE contributor. Novell
declined to comment on Schlaeger's status.
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