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SUSE co-founder returns to Novell
Dec. 19, 2006

SUSE co-founder Hubert Mantel is back in the saddle at Novell. Back in November of 2005 when the well-respected chief maintainer of the SUSE Linux kernel left Novell, he said in an email announcing his resignation that "This is no longer the company I founded 13 years ago."

One of the reasons some believed Mantel left Novell was because Novell briefly decided to support only GNOME as its one official desktop. The company quickly backed off this idea, but by then, Mantel had already left.

Mantel was one of several SUSE senior staffers to leave Novell following the company's acquisition of SUSE in January 2004. 2005 also saw Novell/SUSE's European channel executive Petra Heinrich resign, to take a new position at Open-Xchange, an open-source email company based in Germany. Former Novell European area executive and SUSE President Richard Seibt had left Novell in May 2005.

Unlike the others, Mantel has returned to Novell. The news was broken in the Italian online IT magazine, DMO (Data Manager Online). In an interview with DMO, Mantel explained that he had left Novell because, "Basically I just was burned out. After many years that consisted of nothing else than work and some unpleasant experiences with our investors, it didn't [take] very much to throw in the towel. I simply needed some time off."

Mantel rejoined Novell in the beginning of December. And, according to Novell spokesperson Kevan Barney, he's already hard at work. Mantel is now the team leader of the kernel QA team and he's "back in the swing of things with a full workload."

In the DMO interview, Mantel explained that he had come back because, "I had more than one year of time to think about my future and came to the conclusion that the thing I'm most interested in still is Linux. Also I do have many good friends at SuSE and I really like to work with and for Linux."

Interestingly, Novell's recent deal with Microsoft didn't stand in his way. Indeed, Mantel approves of the partnership. "I think it is a good thing especially for the users. If you think some years back, Linux was not taken seriously. Now even Microsoft acknowledges that it exists and will not go away," DMO quotes him as saying.


-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols



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