> >LinuxWorld: Other parts of the deal -- was there anything in there that was >actually relevant to improving interoperability between --? > >Allison: No, Iâm sorry. I know what youâre going to ask. I mean that part >I >found amusing rather than anything else because the whole point of it was >saying that, oh, weâre going to improve interoperability. But if you look at >it closely, I think it covers some very specific federated directory things, >which essentially very few people in the world actually care about. > >What people really want is a second source Active Directory replacement. >Letâs >just say Novell was doing interesting work. Thatâs what Samba 4 is about, >and >theyâre always doing a lot of interesting work there. But people who think >that Microsoft will now give the information that is needed in order to do >that to Novell just because of this deal are delusional. What you have to >think about is that essentially Microsoft has been fighting tooth and nail >not to give away any of this information to free software projects. So, they >may think that just because they signed some patent cross licensing deal with >Novell -- even though Microsoft really, really wanted the patent cross >licensing deal, just because they signed that, do you think theyâre going to >give away stuff that they essentially have fought absolutely and completely >against the EU and paid billions of dollars in fines to avoid. So, no, >thatâs >not going to happen. > >Read full article here: >http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/c11627ed-d99b-49d2-983d-d22856181888.html
That is around what I meant, in terms of servers. No Microsoft would never ever, or at least not for a while, make it to where Linux and Microsft were 100% compatible. I meant on a server side. It is hard for businesses to have a Linux and Windows server and some don't have the time to learn SAMBA that some of us would. Hence companies like Centeris existing. I think the virtualization thing is a stretch for both MS and Novell but we'll see how it happens. I find it interesting that they opt to use XEN Instead of like, VMWare. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
