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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is Still Alive and Well
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| If Ulteo starts to make big bucks with this
| âpartnershipâ are they going to want to change to a
| pure GNU/Linux play, ever? Nope. That is the plan.
| Maintain the monopoly one way or another. Buy out
| all competition. Make users of competitive products
| pay a tax any way you can.
|
| Watch out Ulteo. Do not sell your soul to the devil
| for a few dollars.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/10/embrace-extend-extinguish-is-still-alive-and-well/
Microsoft hits back on expanded Novell-VMware alliance
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| Itâs relatively rare that Microsoft execs comment
| officially on Redmondâs competitors. Somethingâs
| got to really hit a nerve before that happens. It
| seems that occurred this week, based on a June 9
| post on the Microsoft Virtualization Team Blog.
|
| Novell and VMWare announced an expanded partnership
| on June 9, via which VMware will distribute and
| support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating
| system. VMware also announced plans to standardize
| its virtual-appliance-based product on SUSE Linux
| Enterprise Server.
|
| The newly minted deal didnât sit well with
| Microsoft â especially because Microsoft execs love
| to trot out Novell as an example of Microsoftâs
| interoperability love. Microsoft and Novell
| announced a similar distribution and support deal a
| couple of years ago (which also included patent-
| protection clauses that irked a number of customers
| and players in the open source camp). And just last
| week, Microsoft execs highlighted new high-
| performance advances achieved by Novell and
| Microsoft in their joint lab in Cambridge, Mass.
|
| In a June 9 post, entitled âVMWare figures out that
| virtualization is an OS feature,â Patrick OâRourke,
| director of communications, Server and Tools
| Business, highlights the 3.5 year partnership
| between MIcrosoft and Novell, claiming it has
| benefited more than 475 joint customers.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-hits-back-on-expanded-novell-vmware-alliance/6509
Related:
Comes v. Microsoft Resumes Today
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| "Ronald Alepin, an independent consultant and former CTO for Fujitsu,
| disputed the idea that Microsoft had been an innovator in the field.
| He said that interoperability protocols were developed by companies
| other than Microsoft, and that Microsoft has simply extended the
| protocols and then refused to disclose the extensions. In so doing,
| he told the court, Microsoft "has hijacked standard
| interoperability protocols agreed by the entire industry."
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070104031852847
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