____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 18 July 2007 09:24 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Novell Relishes Pact with Microsoft
>>
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>>| [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?
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