Novell CTO Touts 'Mixed Source' Strategy, Takes Jab At Red Hat
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| Jeff Jaffe, Novell's chief technology officer, writes that his company
| is not going to go down the Open Source-Only strategy path, as he says
| Red Hat has:
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| Companies like Red Hat start with Open Source and end with Open Source.
| That misses the market.
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http://www.crn.com/weblogs/thechart/blog.jhtml?id=196801063
They are now combatting Linux instead of fighting for migrations from Windows
to Linux. That is precisely what Microsoft wants Novell to do. Microsoft and
Oracle (among others) are scared of Red Hat. From this afternoon... some
more incidents of Novell using FUD tactics against Open Source Linux
distributors:
Novell Talks Red Hat, Still Sidles With Microsoft
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| ...it seems evident that Novell is after Red Hat's customers while it
| remains obedient to (READ: scared of) and ?plays nice? with Microsoft.
| It is a case of Linux fighting Linux, which is precisely what Microsoft
| sought to achieve when striking this deal, also paying a lump of money
| for easier persuasion.
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http://boycottnovell.com/2007/01/04/novell-talks-red-hat-still-sidles-with-microsoft/
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