[QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad

[John Brun]

Just an opinion:

I believe Microsoft sees what is happening in the Linux community and 
understands that it either embraces it, or ultimately trails behind it.  
Servers, both business and web, are all starting to move towards a linux 
based platform.  Slowly, as Linux grows, more and more home systems are 
converting.  Office desktop systems are starting to slowly move towards linux 
also. Novell saw that an enterprise system was a money maker, and it seems to 
be, for them.

When you're looking to launch Vista and once again charge people $100 - $200 
for an operating system, that will be in the testing stages for the next two 
years, you can't overlook the draw linux is starting to have.  Also, for 
microsoft, could they come up with a competing Enterprise edition of Linux 
and conqueror both markets....probably.

All that aside the saying "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" 
seems to also come into play.  Having control over some of the linux market 
might also allow them to adjust windows to fight off the linux makers.


John  




> >
> > on other news redhat thinks there gona be the only big distro in a couple
> > years ... wonder why
> >
> > whats microsoft real plan for doing this  ??? leak ip/code to sue ??? go
> > after
> > samba and mono projects ( guess suse works with mono alot ) ( mono =
> > opensource .net implamtation ) i hate rabbit holes ....... does novall
> > own the unix ip from sco suit ...... could this bring another sco type
> > suit even fud another microsft funded law suit not directly connected
> > .....
> >
> > yes i think any type of wedge would fail cause of linuxs growth but could
> > this
> > be also a way to port microsoft office to linux making sure nothings open
> > source . i dont think theres a wedge to make the kernel closed source and
> > all
> > the gpl apps correct if so it would only be for microsofts interface
> > maybe they will make a layer to run windows software fully on linux yet
> > charge a full fee for it . maybe we could see window gui on top of linux
> > kernel  . i think alot of these will not happen maybe office they would
> > make money ( perhapes they would charge for the copy of office plus the
> > windows layer so like 300-600 ... lol ) .
> >
> > why is novall doing this , i mean how many times do they have to get it
> > in the
> > rear .... novall netwear anyone. we will have to wait and see what
> > happens out of this .
> >
> > maybe theres no evil intent at all , but i can not even think this with
> > microsofts track record .
> >
> > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:30, Jim Kristan wrote:
> > > Here is John Dvorak's take on this, he has good in site, or good
> > > sources in the past.
> > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2052320,00.asp
> > >
> > > On 11/7/06, Leif Theden <leif.theden@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > ha.  well i personally wont miss suse.
> > > >
> > > > On 11/7/06, McKnight, Lee <LMcKnight@bandag.com> wrote:
> > > > > I agree with Noah - this can't be anything good for open
> > > > > source/Linux. Especially the way that documents can be shared by
> > > > > both environments (M$Office/OO), but what's that?  The documents
> > > > > won't be 100% sharable? That must mean M$Office documents can share
> > > > > OO documents 100%, but OO can only share 90% of M$Office document
> > > > > features?  Gee, do you suppose that's because if they were 100%
> > > > > sharable there would be no reason to purchase M$Office?  Naw, that
> > > > > can't be it, there must be a better argument than that.  Hmm, I
> > > > > wonder what that could be...
> > > > >
> > > > > Have you ever seen a company that partnered with M$oft that wasn't
> > > > > out of business in a few years?
> > > > >
> > > > > Mac....
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: qclug-bounces@qclug.org [mailto:qclug-bounces@qclug.org] On
> > > > > Behalf Of Noah J Norris
> > > > > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 7:23 AM
> > > > > To: qclug@qclug.org
> > > > > Subject: [QCLUG] novell and microsoft agreements good or bad
> > > > >
> > > > >       I've been reading more and more about microsoft and novell
> > > > > working together .
> > > > > Whats everyones take on this . from what i have read its not good
> > > > > and can bring another sco type case against linux.
> > > > >
> > > > > link
> > > > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1851
> > > > >
> > > > >
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