Novell is beefing up its Linux play with the cash acquisition of Ximian. The company has confirmed that it will continue to support Ximian-sponsored Mono and GNOME open source projects.
Ximian's totemic open source developers (and co-founders), Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman, will continue to do their same jobs wearing Novell hats.
Post-acquisition, Ximian is to be called the "Novell Ximian Services business unit at Novell". Surely this is one Novell too many?
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