Hi Shlomo,
There are a lot of companies that demand mixed solutions - Windows
desktops and Linux servers. Many of us on this list are making a living
from this niche already. Microsoft and Novell decided to enter this niche
together for their own separate reasons - Microsoft realizes that in the
end they will need a Linux partner and Novell because if they don't make
some move soon they will be out of business by the end of 2007. Novell is
the natural choice for Microsoft since Novell has lots of experience
dealing with Microsoft compatibility issues and they are weaker than
RedHat. The Microsoft alliance gives Novell a way to try to bypass RedHat
as the recognized leader of the corporate Linux world and at the present
time it looks like the world has room for only one major Linux distro
company.
My own take on the deal is that the only reason to dump SuSe is ideology
- for the mere fact that they made a deal with Microsoft. This is not a
Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish" move and it has no bearing on
FOSS.
- yba
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: 9 Nov 2006 09:53:41 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Novell and Microsoft
I've read a little about this new deal between Novell and Microsoft. I saw
Linux Journal has an article which essentially says everyone should remove
SUSE and use some other distribution.
Does anyone have a clear view of
what the deal actually says or means?
Shlomo
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