On Thursday 09 November 2006 13:14, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > 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
Novell being out of business by 2007 is simply not true. Your statement has nothing to do with reality. There are some good editorials about this agreement on the Internet, try InfoWorld and others for what the quality analysts say. > 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 Novell is in no way weaker than RedHat is. In fact, RedHat's share has taken a 30% fall (and risen some 10% back) since Oracle announced they will ship their own Linux OS with their Oracle servers, and they will maintain and provide support themselves, at a fraction of the cost that RHEL support costs. > 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. If you ask me, Novell will bypass RHEL, due to their added value. I believe that they will do with their OES just as they did and are doing with their Suse Desktop version, which means fully integrate it into their added value services (to which RHEL is not even close), and possibly ending up deprecating Netware in favour of SuSE. The desktop version was fully integrated it into their eDirectory (considered to be the best on the market) allow ZenWorks to fully control and customize the desktops, integrated iFolder support, iPrint support, and all the functionality of the Novell client. I believe that in a year or so it will be best Enterprise ready desktop distro on the market. If any of you is interested to see what wonders we worked out by integrating Novell and Linux @TAU, you're welcome to come and visit (mail me offline). I think that it'll be enough to say that we created solutions for IDM and data synchronization between incompatible entities using Novell products for about 1/100 the cost of such systems or integration on the commercial market. We've had large (and rich) companies come over to see and learn (like Teva for example). > --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
