One can be certain that there is motivations on both sides. Novells goal is probably to establish itself as the safe IP linux of choice. Novell is looking for a edge over Novell, but I doubt things change will change much for Redhat. Perhaps Redhat would become a acqusistion target for Oracle...
--- Mike Marion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Randall Shimizu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > It appears that MS is trying extend & embrace > the > > Linux community. So perhaps MS is trying to get > users > > the patent protected version of Linux. Microsoft > could > > then raise the licensing fees to Novell.. > > I was actually wondering if part of it might be the > increase in usage > of virtual machines expected. With Intel's VT > stuff, AMD's Pacifica, > VMware, Xen, etc... more and more people seem to be > talking about > using virtualization. I don't know of many that > intend on doing mass > virtualization and using windows as the base OS for > it... so MS might > be hoping that partnering with novell will help with > making sure > windows is well supported under things like Xen > (Novell is really > pushing Xen more), and better access to direct > testing under things > like Xen with Novell would help. > > I don't think that's the whole reason for their > acceptance of the > partnership of course.. but I think it might be part > of it. > > The only thing I'm keeping an eye out for is that > things don't change > for those of us that have standardized on SLES over > RHEL. We've done > that at work in our compute farm (for various > reasons) and hopefully > this isn't going to effect us much, if at all. > > -- > Mike Marion-Unix/Linux > Admin-http://www.miguelito.org > Linux is harder to learn than Windows. But it is > easier to use. > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
