SUSE LINUX Abandons United Linux

Jan. 23, 2004 12:00 AM

The United Linux scheme that IBM is believed to have put in train to keep Red Hat contained and give SUSE LINUX some legs is nothing more than an empty shell.

With the SCO Group, the great Anti-Linux, refusing to drop out, SUSE LINUX, the new Novell satellite and the lynchpin of the initiative, is refusing to put any more development effort into it although, according to SUSE LINUX president Richard Seibt, SUSE LINUX wants to keep its relationship with United Linux partners TurboLinux and Conectiva alive.

The situation explains how the Open Systems Development Lab (OSDL) managed to hire Paula Hunter, the former general manager of the United Linux effort, to be its new East Coast director of business development.

Brian Grega, who OSDL named its biz dev director six months ago, still handles the Left Coast.

Their shared job is to drum up more Fortune 100 end-user members as well as ISVs and other vendors for the consortium.

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