Wasn't redhat more popular than suse to begin with? On Aug 9, 2008, at 0:52, "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
