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From: Navindra Umanee <navindra at kde.org>
Dept: lizards-vs-primates
Date: Monday 12/Jan/2004, @16:39

TechCentral on KDE and Novell/SUSE Acquisition
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   With the KDE development and user communities flourishing more than
ever, some people are anxious to drum up panic and drama surrounding
corporate plays such as the acquisition of SUSE [http://www.suse.com/]
by Novell [http://www.novell.com/].  As you might know, SUSE has thus
far been a huge KDE believer and by using KDE has benefited from a loyal
and enthusiastic Linux desktop userbase of its own.  Last year, Richard
Seibt CEO of SUSE confirmed this sentiment
[http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=106855804831790&w=2] and
pledged to maintain SUSE's strong support for KDE.  A recent
investigation
[http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/1/12/technology/7079523&sec=technology]
by TechCentral [http://star-techcentral.com/] reveals the same: "SuSE
will continue (to operate) as a business unit of its own."  said John
Phillips, Novell's corporate technology strategist for the Asia Pacific
region. "We don't expect to make Ximian the default user interface, and
for the medium term KDE will remain the default GUI on SuSE Linux."

     With the number of incredible KDE Enterprise features available now
and planned for the near future, the robustness and vitality of the KDE
community, we can remain confident KDE will be an incontrovertible
choice for Novell in the long term as well.