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> Novell Seeks Partners Across Linux/Windows Integration, Security, And More
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> | Novell is now on the lookout for more partners to work on-site at
> | customer locations to help out with product maintenance and optimization.
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> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/6372/1/
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> What Novell could learn from Google
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> | In short, Google may have been willing to accept a legal fight in
> | order to protect its ability to mine video for money, yes, but also
> | to protect fair use rights for video on the Internet. If true, very
> | laudable.
> |
> | And very different from Novell's actions vis-a-vis Linux. Novell
> | claims to want to sell and proliferate Linux. But it has taken the
> | exact wrong strategy to do so. Instead of protecting Linux and
> | standing up for its integrity, Novell has slandered its reputation
> | with its dubious Microsoft pact. However Novell may want to color
> | it, the agreement implies that Linux is "Unclean!"
> |
> | A better strategy, then, would have been to stand up to Microsoft,
> | rather than to lie down and grovel before it. This would have made
> | Novell a champion, rather than the pariah it has become. There is
> | precedent for this, too, as Novell stood up to SCO in a similar
> | situation several years back.
> |
> | You can do better, Novell.
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> http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/what_novell_cou.html
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> Hovsepian's regrets nothing while Steinman apologizes
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> | While Hovsepian has no regrets the same cannot be said for Justin
> | Steinman, Novell's director of marketing for Linux and Open
> | Platform Solutions, who has been forced to issue an apology
> | following misleading statements about Novell's contribution
> | to the Free Software Foundation.
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> http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/03/hovsepians_regr.html
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http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit041.html
"As I've been saying for years, "A Microsoft partner is a victim they
haven't gotten around to yet", but if you're already a Microsoft
competitor, a partnership agreement is more likely immediately
destructive."
"Whether there is actually any substance to this agreement is still a
matter of discussion and debate, but that's completely beside the point,
the damage to Novell has already been done."
"Novell apparently expected this agreement to be a competitive
differentiator for their SUSE Linux in competition with Red Hat and other
Linux distributions. It's a differentiator all right, and it's done
severe and immediate damage to Novell."
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