On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:57, Martin Stricker wrote: > Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/08/pr03051.html > > So Ximian goes the same way as DRDOS and WordPerfect... :-((( > > Best regards, > Martin Stricker I fail to see any similarity. DRDOS was purchased by Caldera specifically so they could use it as the basis of a lawsuit against MS. After the suit was settled, there was no reason to keep it, but in the intervening period it was released as OpenDOS and you could download the source code. By the time Caldera bought DRDOS there was no market left for DOS. Are you implying Novell should have continued sinking money into a product no one wanted other than to leverage a legal case against MS? WordPerfect, after bumbling its way into the WinTel world, got batted around until it landed at Corel. Once MS bought a piece of Corel and made noise about helping Corel get back on its feet, Corel made decisions unfavorable to the continued life of the product. Novell was never an apps house, Corel was a better fit for WP. Unfortunately the product was all but dead by the time they got it, and MS getting into the mix was a deal clincher. It would have been market shift for Novell to try to build an apps unit, much less to try to breathe life into an all but dead product. Ximian is a different story in a lot of ways. The desktop is probably the least important piece of Ximian for Novell. - rick -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
