__/ [ Rex Ballard ] on Monday 12 February 2007 20:43 \__
> It looks like Novell is NOT going to just roll over and play dead!
> Yahoo!!
>
> <quote>
> Novell may have inked a landmark deal with rival Microsoft concerning
> the distribution of Linux by Microsoft, but that doesn't mean Novell
> is not competing with Microsoft. It also doesn't necessarily mean that
> Novell is much of a rival to Microsoft, particularly on the desktop,
> when you look at installed base and revenue. But with the launch of
> Windows Vista and Office 2007 this week, there is not going to be
> another opportunity to take some market share like this for at least
> another five years.
>
> [snip]
>
> So Novell has been ratcheting up a marketing campaign to promote its
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, or SLED 10, variant of the Linux
> platform, aimed specifically at Windows and Office users in business
> and at home. In this case, the marketing campaign consists of a few
> Web pages--one of them cleverly designed to emulate the new Vista
> blues on the Microsoft site--an offer to let people try SLED 10 for 60
> days for free (including the tweaked version of the OpenOffice 2.0
> suite), and a whitepaper that compares the economics of Vista to SLED
> 10.
> </quote>
> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb013007-story01.html
>
> I followed a few of the more interesting links
>
> This one is on TCO
> http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/tco.html
> <quote>
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is an attractive alternative to Vista
> for a mere US$50 subscription. The initial cost of Windows Vista is
> much higher. Though the fees in the following table are based on
> Windows XP, Vista is not expected to be less expensive:
> <table>
> <tr><td></td><td>SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop</td><td>Windows Vista</
> td></tr>
> <tr><td>License/Subscription Fee</td><td>US$50</tr><td>US$299</td></
> tr>
> <tr><td>Maintenance (per year)</td><td>Included in subscription fee</
> td><td>US$86</td></tr>
> <tr><td>Total (one year)</td><td>US$50</td><td>US$385</td></tr>
> <tr><td>Total (three years)</td><td>US$125</td><td>US$557</td></tr>
> </table>
> Source: Microsoft and Novell, July 2006
>
> Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows Vista costs about US$400-US$500 per
> user, making the cost of Windows Vista with a single productivity tool
> US$700-US$800 per user. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop comes bundled
> with OpenOffice 2.0 so you basically get 90 percent of Vista's
> functionality at 10 percent of its cost.
>
> Buying a Windows Vista license and Microsoft Office 2007, along with
> paying for maintenance, is not the end of your costs. You will almost
> certainly have to buy new hardware to run some of Windows Vista's new
> features (such as Aero Glass). And if you have not upgraded your
> hardware in the past year, you may have to buy new hardware just to
> run Windows Vista, even without Aero Glass.
> </quote>
Novell starts pulling down Anti-Microsoft messages from their site.
...
http://boycottnovell.com/2006/11/20/novell-change-image/
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