So, let's say I am not the tinfoil hat wearing kind today, I see two plausible business ideas they may want to exploit.
First, Microsoft may want virtualization to work between Linux and their OS's. Novell may have a good idea about getting Microsoft to participate with Xen discussions or something that is fruitful to getting Windows to run on Xen nicely, and possibly enabling Linux to run on top of Windows better. Second, don't some of the Mono developers work at Novell? Just curious if Microsoft wouldn't be interested in having official "target Mono on Linux" type of support for their .Net studio development products. Having said that... (tinfoil hat on for 5 seconds), they could also eventually own Novell and completely start to take over the "corporate" (read: supported) Linux model. Wouldn't affect me much, I don't see them buying Debian anytime soon, but would still be interesting because so much of the business world would probably go and buy the Microsoft server linux, if it ever existed. I know my IT here at work would, they already have the "enterprise license agreement / all-you-can-eat-plan" with Microsoft. If there was a MS server distro, guess which one we'd have running here? Joel Brauer wrote: > Why? > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not Micro$oft fanboy. But realistically what > can Microsoft do to harm it? If they do things to SuSE that screws it > up, then ya know, I'll just use Ubuntu. Wait, that's what I'm doing... > oh well. But the point is that open source goes hand in hand with > freedom and liberty. If some stupid company tries to come in, throw > around power and mess stuff up, then we simply go another direction. > Which we are free to do. So either they play nice, or they're > irrelevant. > > -joel > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 13:59 -0800, Chris Louden wrote: > >>This upsets me greatly. >> >>On 11/2/06, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>Here is a WSJ article >>> >>>http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116249026689311557-helTbrheLKgbaJ5iO5z40ZFCiOs_20061109.html?mod=blogs >>> >>> >>> >>>On 11/2/06, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>>http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/3d1Xk6mH0qpczwqbqLsR4kJ >>>>>I'm baffled. >>>>>Why would Microsoft do *anything* to help out a Linux provider. >>>>>What makes Microsoft even remotely qualified to provide "sales support" >>>>>for SUSE Linux? >>>>>The questions go on and on... >>>> >>>>After Oracle made their announcement the other day, >>>>I joked to myself that Microsoft would be next. >>>>But yeah, I'm surprised and curious too. >>>> >>>>Microsoft bought part of Apple. >>>>Microsoft bought part of Intuit. >>>>Comparable or not comparable? >>>> >>>>============== >>>> >>>>aside: I worked for Oracle from 1994-1997. >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>909linux mailing list >>>>[email protected] >>>>http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux >>>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>909linux mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
