Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 18 July 2007 09:24 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Novell Relishes Pact with Microsoft
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| [Steinman:] As part of our agreement, Microsoft purchased from Novell $240
>>>| million of certificates that customers can redeem for subscriptions to SuSE
>>>| Linux Enterprise Server with support. Microsoft has been selling
>>>| those certificates to customers as part of mixed Windows-Linux deals.
>>>| Xandros didn't get anything like that. We also have some of the
>>>| unique stuff around virtualization with Microsoft. We weren't
>>>| surprised by this news. They said publicly from day one they
>>>| wanted to sign up some other partners as part of their open
>>>| source ecosystem.
>>>|
>>>| So is this a good thing?
>>>|
>>>| [Steinman:] It's part of Microsoft's business strategy. I think well
>>>| leave it up to the market to decide. All I'm capable of
>>>| commenting on is why Novell did the deal. It was important
>>>| to deliver this technical interoperability between Windows
>>>| and Linux. It's been borne out by the fact that in the six
>>>| months of the deal so far, Novell has invoiced $91 million
>>>| of the $240 million that Microsoft committed to us in the
>>>| agreement. That's roughly 38 percent in six months of a
>>>| five-year deal.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://reddevnews.com/qandas/article.aspx?editorialsid=112
>>>
>>> A ridiculous mindset and quite a pathetic one. Microsoft has already
>>> backstabbed Novell.
>>
>> Be realistic, they're not going to admit an error.
>
> I don't know if you followed this or not, but they became defensive. They still
> have to suck up to Microsoft, however, because they are financially dependent
> on them. How on earth does a 5000-man company become dependent on its rival?
> Can you imagine AMD asking Intel to market its chips?
>
I fully agree - I was being a little tongue-in-cheek above, but I
appreciate that this doesn't come across at all, really. Sorry.
It is kind of amusing, isn't it?
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