Novell gets SuSE

Former owner of the Unix source code, Novell has now bought one of those who are impacted by it's sale of the code to SCO, SuSE, for $210 Million in cash. Novell plans to use the purchase, expected to close in the first few months of the new year, to expand it's enterprise computing options and add support for Linux. It certainly appears that Novell is moving towards open source in big ways as they have followed the purchase of Ximian, maker of the Gnome desktop, by buying the distributor of one of the most popular European Linux distributions, and one that specializes in enterprise installs of Linux. CNet's news.com has a look at what they think is Novell redesigning itself around Linux, and it does make one wonder who, or what they will buy next.