December 15, 2008 4:06 PM PST
Novell's new Linux chief has Suse history
Markus Rex, formerly the chief technology officer of Suse and currently on leave from Novell, is back in the saddle as acting general manager and senior vice president of Novell's Open Platform Solutions business unit, reporting to Novell CTO Jeff Jaffe, as Novell announced Monday.
Rex had been on loan to the Linux Foundation as its CTO for the past year. He's a fervid community believer, someone who will help balance Novell's interest in driving Linux-based revenue with the need to rebuild its relations with the Linux community that soured on Novell in the wake of its patent deal with Microsoft.
It's good to have Rex back with Novell's Suse Linux business. This is positive news for the company and for Suse Linux.
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- by matthorany December 17, 2008 5:56 AM PST
- I hope this will continue to push SLED as a desktop solution but more the SLES / OES 2 as an enterprise solution. I think if it were marketed properly, you'd see more enterprises running iprint, ifolder, DSfW, etc.
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