The article is a year old and it's pure speculation. Nothing substantial to support failing SuSE adoption due to the Novell/MS deal. bb
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:18 PM, willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From the last link I provided: > > "Alfresco's survey of 10,000 users finds Red Hat adoption tripling, while > Novell usage stays stagnant. A global survey of open-source enterprise users > of Alfresco software has found that deployments of Red Hat Linux have grown > twice as fast as those for Novell SUSE Linux since Novell signed its > controversial patent and interoperability agreement with Microsoft in > November 2006." > > They go on to detail ways their study is general and reflects enterprise > opinion world wide. > > The Free Software Foundation's has the best opinion on the harm done to free > software. They are independent software freedom experts. If the above is > true, enterprise users agree with them or think Red Hat offers better value. > I'd like to enterprise customers are bright enough to equate freedom to their > bottom line costs. > > All of the possible outcomes of the deal were in M$'s favor. If the world > rejects Novell, a competitor is eliminated. If the world buys into M$ taxed > free software from Novell, M$ gains ownership of a new generation of free > software and revenue to eliminate other companies that did not sign up. > Either way, they gained Novel's buy in for their new round of secret sauce > and legitimacy for Steve Ballmer's dishonest patent threats. > > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Author-of-Linux-Patent-Study-Says-Ballmer-Got-It-Wrong/ > > They can say, "See there? A Linux company respects the value of our IP." If > you were not paying attention, you might believe them. > > If Red Hat growth rates are an accurate poll of opinion, enterprise companies > were paying attention. Red Hat's reaction punches holes in M$ patent claims > and, in the long run, gives them a lower cost of business. It is interesting > that enterprise customers moved while Novell was being paid by M$ for their > deal. > > On Friday 08 August 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote: >> What I've seen of Novell's numbers don't seem to indicate that there >> has been any substantive (read that as: financial) repercussion to >> Novell because of this agreement. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
