This is IBM operating through a proxy; SUSE already supports most of IBM's server line, IBM and Novell are already fairly close. The only surprising thing is that IBM isn't buying Novell up outright...
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 08:16 AM, jgw wrote:
Let's just hope to hell that this goes somewhere. I'm not holding myExcept that their best usually involves gratuitous incompatibility and moves
breath with Novell's recent history, but it would be great if they could
rebound with a solid Linux/NDS-based "enterprise" solution.
It would be a win/win situation for everyone. Microsoft's always done its
best when it's scared, and the market is competitive.
designed not for the benefit of those actually plonking down money, but to create lockin.
Lockin raises the customers switching costs. It does aid in making the market more stable
which most customers like, and sometimes consider worth the cost.
But really the Operating Systems business is becoming commodified on the desktop
the basic functionality isn't that different from one offering to another, and if you are
building client workstations for specific tasks (as most businesses do) it may make more sense
to go with a Linux variant than Windows, and for the next couple of years at least
(the torrrent of Longhorn vapor notwithstanding) the switching costs are appreciably lower than they
have been.
-- "The Internet is falling" --C. Little 2003
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