On Nov 2, 2006, at 2:41 PM, David Kaiser wrote:
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.
I might be able to see that, but with everything we've seen in the
past if Microsoft has the code base they would rather fork the code
and tweak it so it is completely proprietary and then release it out.
I'll go out on a limb and say that they enjoy neigh lust after
tweaking RFC's so things don't interoperate unless they are MS
created or certified...
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.
Now this, this I had forgotten about and since they have been pushing
their .Net hard it does make sense.
I've felt for a long while that Novell is pretty weak at the moment
(so very good products) but nothing that makes them well a leader of
any pack that I can tell. I know a lot of areas what would switch to
linux or MS Linux just for the fact it was re-branded as MS Linux.
Right now I don't think they will buy out anyone because it weakens
their anti-trust defenses as much as it may strengthen other aspects
of that defense. That and I do not think Microsoft understands the
culture well enough though it is trying to increase its corporate
knowledge of the Linux community.
Either way do not think the sky is falling. I have thought for a
while that MS has treated Linux much like they treated the internet
when it first hit.... That cost them lots of lead time and forced
them to buy up lots of smaller companies to catch up to everyone else.
