Mainstreaming Linux?
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| The bigger issue I have, though, is the whole concept of including
| support for Novell products in Windows. A little over a decade ago,
| Microsoft included NetWare support in Windows by reverse-engineering the
| IPX/SPX protocol, calling it NWLink, and including it with every version
| of Windows that shipped. That move marked the beginning of the end for
| NetWare --no longer did you need to license the proprietary IPX/SPX
| protocol to talk to the network, you already had it. While this looked
| like Microsoft's bridge to interoperability at the time, it also opened
| the door to building entire networks without using anything from Novell
| -- once you didn't need it for the desktop, you learned that NT could be
| the server and Windows could do it all.
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http://www.certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=211th
All Systems Go: Novell & Microsoft Interoperability Web Seminar
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| Microsoft and Novell are coming together -- to help you operate better
| and achieve your key technical and business goals.
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http://register.novell.com/listings/?id=85
Hovsepian said that he foresaw Linux virtualised under (the rather flaky)
Windows when he struck the deal.
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