____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 08 January 2008 07:19 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz espoused:
>> He's out.
>>
>> LaSala Named Discovery General Counsel
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Most recently, LaSala served as senior vice president, general counsel and
>>| secretary for Novell, where he served as a member of Novell?s executive
>>| leadership team and had responsibility for all legal matters affecting
>>| Novell on a worldwide basis, including corporate governance, intellectual
>>| property, contract management, licensing, anti-piracy, regulatory
>>| compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. LaSala joined Novell
>>| in 2001 when the company acquired Cambridge Technology Partners, where he
>>| served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary since 2000.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.multichannel.com/article/...dustryid=47200
>>
>
> Clearly he's not convinced that the cash coming in from Microsoft will
> be enough to hold Novell up in the long run.


I've been gentle with Novell. A few hours later I found out that there was a
staff exodus in Novell South Africa, but I didn't post this to COLA. ;-)

Deals with Microsoft are great, aren't they? So think Ron Hovsepian...

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Roy Schestowitz espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 08 January 2008 07:19 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz espoused:
>>> He's out.
>>>
>>> LaSala Named Discovery General Counsel
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Most recently, LaSala served as senior vice president, general counsel and
>>>| secretary for Novell, where he served as a member of Novell?s executive
>>>| leadership team and had responsibility for all legal matters affecting
>>>| Novell on a worldwide basis, including corporate governance, intellectual
>>>| property, contract management, licensing, anti-piracy, regulatory
>>>| compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. LaSala joined Novell
>>>| in 2001 when the company acquired Cambridge Technology Partners, where he
>>>| served as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary since 2000.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.multichannel.com/article/...dustryid=47200
>>>
>>
>> Clearly he's not convinced that the cash coming in from Microsoft will
>> be enough to hold Novell up in the long run.
>
>
> I've been gentle with Novell. A few hours later I found out that there was a
> staff exodus in Novell South Africa, but I didn't post this to COLA. ;-)
>
> Deals with Microsoft are great, aren't they? So think Ron Hovsepian...
>

They're clearly falling apart. Fortunately, since the SuSE codebase is
GPLed, they won't damage linux in the long-term, although it could mean
the end of that particular distribution if the code is adopted instead
into slack, mandriva, red hat, debian, ubuntu or some other.

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