Does anyone care about the MS-Novell agreement besides, well, MS and Novell?
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| I realize it’s only one year in, but I think it would behoove Microsoft and
| Novell to flesh out what it is they mean when they talk
| about “interoperability frameworks” and the like. Revenue numbers from Novell
| for its OS business wouldn’t hurt, either.
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/11/09/does-anyone-care-about-the-ms-novell-agreement-besides-well-ms-and-novell/
Red Hat, Novell race to offer better Windows guest support, Windows Server 2008
virtualization support
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| With that, Microsoft plans to offer the first real beta of its “Viridian”
| virtualization hypervisor. The fully baked Viridian hypervisor — which is
| supposed to be compatible with Xen — is expected to ship six months after
| Windows server 2008. It’s unclear the extent to which this Xen compatibility
| will benefit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, which also is based on Xen. Seems
| obvious Novell’s Linux will benefit more.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1653
Related:
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| [Allison: ] "Yes, that's true, actually. I mean I have had people come
| up to me and essentially off the record admit that they had been
| threatened by Microsoft and had got patent cross license and had
| essentially taken out a license for Microsoft patents on the free
| software that they were using [...] But they're not telling anyone
| about it. They're completely doing it off the record."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/02/11/1443211.shtml
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
|
| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
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| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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