Comments on: Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux sales

The creator of the Suse distribution says its Linux sales have grown by 243 percent, largely due to a partnership with Microsoft.

[umbrae]

Due to Microsoft alright!

But nothing to do with the Partnership...

[The_Decider]

I was thinking the same thing

Vista is Microsoft's gift to Linux and Apple.

[Jim Harmon]

More like, due to Vista!

If anything motivated people to check out a new Operating System, it would be Vista. :)

[Renegade Knight]

MicroSoft Provides the Support?

What's wrong with Novell? I used to trust Novell's support. MS doesn't even support it's own products. I'd not trust them to support someone elses.

[Jim Harmon]

Hey, that's not completely fair...

MS will support anything they're paid to support.

[imacpwr]

Did Colin Barker just crawl out of a cave...?!?

The headline reads: "Novell credits Microsoft... (then it goes on to
say) The creator of the Suse distribution says.."

HUH...????? ahh HELLO...
Novell didn't create Suse,
THEY BOUGHT IT..!!!

[The_Decider]

Yes they did

But they also polished the hell out of it, and really the only competition for SLED(and openSUSE) is OSX.

Nothing comes close, especially not Windows. Duh, even Ubuntu beats the crap out of XP and Vista. Put Ubuntu side by side to SUSE and the truth that Ubuntu is years away from being top quality is quickly evident.

[ferretboy88]

100 million in 9 months?

I thought linux was supposed to be free. I hate Suse with a passion after spending $50 on a disk and book pack that turned out to be a 10 page crap manual to nothing with a crap os(10.1). I will stick with other FREE distros next time. Have fun with all of your money.

[Steven N]

Why pay for SuSe when you have OpenSuse

I saw in a previous post that you preferred Fedora over SuSe. To make a fair comparison, you should compare with OpenSuse.

OpenSuse 10.3 became available just a week ago. If you really want to get a feel of where SuSe is directed to, then try this distro.