__/ [ John Locke ] on Saturday 24 March 2007 18:21 \__
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:12:29 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Users are wooed to Enterprise Linux
>>
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>>| Novell announced several new European, US and global businesses
>>| running its Linux and open source range of enterprise software
>>| at the Brainshare conference last week.
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>>http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/03/20/222617/users-are-wooed-to-enterprise-linux.htm
>>
>>Novell-Microsoft interoperability push
>>
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>>| After years of hostility, Novell welcomed Microsoft for the first time
>>| to its annual BrainShare user conference to discuss implications
>>| of the vendors' controversial technology interoperability
>>| agreement.
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>>http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/032207-brainshare.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
>
> This Novell-Microsoft thing really bothers me. Its clearly an effort
> by Microsoft to either kill or control Linux. When I get ready to
> switch our small business over to Linux, I will not be looking at
> Novell. Hello Redhat.
I hate to say this, but Microsoft made a smart move with Novell. They only
needed to pay them $0.3 billion to self destruct. Novell was worth much more
than that. Sun took $2 billion, IIRC. Maybe Novell can just hand over that
lump of money to the FSF, then close the shop and call it a day. It will do
less harm this way. No more joint press releases that talk about supposedly
frightened customers and 'unclean' code in Linux.
Microsoft/Novell patent deal -- a customer doesn't speak
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| I asked Matthew O'Neill, group head of distributed systems for HSBC
| global IT operations, whether he was ever worried about either Microsoft
| or Novell suing it for using the other company's products.
|
| Before O'Neill could answer, however, Susan Hauser, general manager
| of strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, chipped in to
| answer for him, giving the stock answer that the companies? customers
| had concerns about intellectual property and wanted peace of mind.
|
| Well here I was asking the companies' customer to explain his concerns
| about intellectual property and he wasn?t being given a chance to
| speak. Eventually he did make his feelings known, but it would seem
| HSBC isn?t as concerned about IP infringement as Microsoft.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/03/microsoftnovell.html
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