SuSe and Compaq

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

Yeah, Compaq bought DEC in 1998 (late '97?).  Compaq had been doing a lot
with RedHat both on
the Intel and Alpha side, including SmartStart kits for RedHat for their
servers.  That's what I found so
surprising about their buy-in to SuSE.  But I guess after reading the
article that it's maybe more of an
industry bail-out/co-op thing, since SGI also bought in - all of this at a
time when SuSE's stock is on a
downturn and its US operations are laying people off.  Compaq may have
simply decided that it wants
to diversify its interests in the Linux market instead of putting all of
its proverbial eggs in RedHat's
basket.

PaulM



Doesn't Compaq own digital?  Perhaps there plans will change.


Randy Keyes
Network Services, JNL
randall.keyes@jnli.com


-----Original Message-----
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com wrote:
>
>      Do you have a URL?  I wonder if they're just bargain shopping (SuSE
is
> laying off and selling off this quarter)?
>
>
>      Did it indicate whether they're looking at it for the Alpha or x86
> platform servers?  I'd really like to see Compaq replace Tru64 (or at
> least augment it) with Linux of some sort.
>



Digital had already made plans to to merge parts of Tru64 with Linux, but
I thought they were doing it with Redhat.