A Year of Microsoft and Novell Partnership
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| One year after former arch-rivals Microsoft and Novell partner up, what has
| resulted from their alliance?
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2214178,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Microsoft-Novell: Has Their Deal Made a Difference?
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| Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff sees little impact.
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| "Overall, it's hard to see a lot of impact to date in the sense that there
| haven't been major market share shifts among any of the major players," Haff
| said.
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| 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett is on the same side of the fence, noting
| that the overall impact of the agreement has not been as great as people
| might have expected, or feared, depending on their point of view.
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| "Microsoft's purchase of $240 million worth of support certificates for joint
| customers produced a boost for Novell's Linux revenue, but it doesn't appear
| to have had any impact on Red Hat's business," Aslett told InternetNews.com.
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| A Red Hat spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
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| Beyond the business impact there is the interoperability side of the equation
| to consider, as well.
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| "There could still be some long-term impact from the interoperability
| initiatives around virtualization, as well as systems and identity
| management, but it could be some time before customers see the results,"
| Aslett said.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3710096
Related:
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.
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| [...]
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| 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
Speaking of Linux and the spirit of open source
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| Novell doesn't need to urinate in the pool from which it hopes to build its
| future, but that is precisely what it is doing. It can and should do better.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9788233-16.html
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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