Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold
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| Wednesday, Microsoft said Hyper-V beta for Windows Server 2008 is feature
| complete. Included in the list of operating systems supported are Windows
| Server 2003 SP2, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, Windows Vista
| SP1 (x86), and Windows XP SP3 (x86). See John Fontana's article for more
| details about the Hyper-V RC announcement.
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| Though I'm anxious for Hyper-V to be released, especially the standalone
| version (which is not what this RC announcement was about), I'm very
| disappointed in Hyper-V's lack of support for Linux.
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| No offense to SUSE Enterprise Server crowd, but only providing SUSE support
| in Hyper-V is a huge mistake. By not supporting Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, and
| BSD, Microsoft is telling us Hyper-V is a Microsoft only technology. More Mt.
| Redmond, Microsoft center of the universe thinking. That's disappointing.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26165
Now is the time to complain to the EU. Microsoft is playing dirty again, as it
recently did against TrueCrypt, Google, Opera, ODF and Phoenix.
Why Novell is happy with Hyper-V
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| However, Hyper-V's Linux support is limited to SUSE. That's no surprise,
| given Microsoft's relationship with Novell, but more users have Red Hat, and
| other distributions. They won't be able to use Microsoft's virtualisation
| technology - though to be fair, they will probably be more interested in
| VMWare or Red Hat's own virtualisation technology.
|
| "We're pleased with Hyper-V," says Justin Steinman, director of Linux
| marketing at Novell. "SUSE Linux is a first class guest on Microsoft Windows
| Server." Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has shown SUSE Linux running as a guest,
| which was "cool", said Steinman.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007593o-2000469549b,00.htm?new_comment
More proof that Novell is Microsoft's accomplice.
Recent:
Executive moves: Martin Buckley quits Novell over "certain principles"
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| Positive changes? Well, apparently not from Martin's perspective. You don't
| quit a company after eight and a half years over "certain principles" unless
| things are really bad. I never knew Martin during my time at Novell but he
| was/is well-respected. His departure doesn't inspire confidence.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9889557-16.html
Novell's PR director leaves to change the world
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| Bruce Lowry, Novell's head of global public relations, will say 'Goodbye' to
| Novell this week to start with the Skoll Foundation as its communications
| director.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9882387-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Novell's .Net moment
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| Novell has struggled to compete in the open-source world. Combining with
| Microsoft hasn't helped. So why not, as Dave suggests, link up with
| Microsoft's .Net code to build an ecosystem around it that would complement
| Microsoft's own efforts to do so?
|
| [...]
|
| Let's face it: there are still hordes of developers out there who love
| Microsoft and would probably prefer to create open-source projects
| around .Net instead of Java or the LAMP stack. Novell could orchestrate this
| since Microsoft appears to have a PR problem with doing so.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9867460-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Microsoft +/vs. Novell: The rich irony of then and now
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| In other words, Microsoft engaged in selective interoperability via
| closed "standards," which sounds eerily similar to the interoperability and
| patent scheme that Novell signed up to with Microsoft. Is it OK now that
| Novell gets to dish out the closed "standards" now, with Microsoft's help?
|
| [...]
|
| Novell took 10 years to dig itself out from Microsoft's last monopolistic
| barrage. Why undergo the same humiliation again? Why not join with the
| industry in forcing Microsoft to play fairly, rather than siding with the
| bully because it's momentarily convenient?
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9896611-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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