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M$ to partner with Novell in Linux Venture

  • 02-11-2006 9:19pm
    #1
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭


    From marketwatch.com...
    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- With Microsoft Corp. reportedly set to follow Oracle Corp. in offering support services to corporate customers using the Linux operating system, pressure is mounting on Red Hat Inc. and others that depend on the open source software to survive.

    More here


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    MarketWatch has no details about the expected announcement, VNUNet says its likely another interop project.

    Great big "meh", to be honest. Nice for some businesses, nothing for home users.


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Huh, watching the press conference, it looks like there is some IP licensing to Novell as well as the interop stuff. Novell will be able to use proprietary, patented Microsoft technology in SuSE.

    Reduces the size of the "meh" a little, until we see more details on what exactly those licenses cover.


  • #4
    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    Writeup here: http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/faq.html

    Important bit here:
    Q. The press release indicates Microsoft is also pledging not to assert its patents against individual, non-commercial open source developers. How is this connected to Novell?

    Microsoft and Novell felt it was important to establish a precedent for the individual, non-commercial open source developer community that potential patent litigation need not be a concern. Microsoft is excited to more actively participate in the open source community and Novell is and will continue to be an important enabler for this bridge. For these reasons, both Novell and Microsoft felt it was appropriate to make this pledge for Microsoft not to assert its patents against the non-commercial community.
    Now thats quite a lot more than "a lot of meh".


  • #5
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    /me checks whether Ryanair will charge extra to fly ski gear to hell.


  • #6
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,160 ✭✭✭SeanW


    /*joins sceptre in his investigation*/


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  • #7
    Tom Dunne
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    /wonders what OS they run in hell


  • #8
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,560 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    tom dunne wrote:
    /wonders what OS they run in hell
    IBM MVS.

    I always thought that either Novell or Oracle should have put out their own distro of Linux about five years ago.

    Netware back in 1998 bet the pants off the NT of today in so many ways. But in I.T. he with the greater marketing budget always wins.

    I would imagine this all comes out of Oracle's recent decision to put their own Linux distro out (based on RedHat). Corporate I.T. shops will flock to this and I bet the very idea of beating Gates in the server market gives Larry Elison a nightly hard-on.

    However Microsoft have dropped the ball teaming up with Novell. Despite all their early technical innovations, Novell today are dead in the water, they're not waving, they're drowning.

    Open-source goes right against the grain for Microsoft, but I think they've realised that revenue-streams from selling new-and-improved versions of the dancing paper-clip are in terminal decline and they better do something and fast.

    In terms of Open-Source adoption, this is a little analgous to the cold war. America and Russia didn't want to be openly seen as engaging in open warfare with each other so they sponsored the combantants in proxy wars, such as Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistaan.

    Microsoft are doing this with Novell/SuSE, Oracle are doing the same with RedHat.

    Interesting times lie ahead.


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