Here's a follow story of the Novell purchase of SuSE -- putting it all in perspective.

The overall reaction I've been seeing is that this purchase and RedHat moving towards server support only shows that Linux can be profitable on just the server level now, with a major play towards the desktop market several years down the road. RedHat's CEO basically came out and said this.

Microsoft's Longhorn release better be spectactular, or else the Linux fires will be fueled.