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[News] Novell/Microsoft Lots of Hype, Less Success

  • Subject: [News] Novell/Microsoft Lots of Hype, Less Success
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:45:21 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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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.
| 
| "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.  
| 
| 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.  
| 
| "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.  
| 
| A Red Hat spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
| 
| Beyond the business impact there is the interoperability side of the equation 
| to consider, as well. 
| 
| "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.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.  
| 
| 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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