Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Xandros celebrates Microsoft union with patents
>
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> | Under the typical five year ActiveSync licensing deal Microsoft charges
> | $100,000 or the first year's royalties - depending on which is higher -
> | with a per unit royalty charged after that.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/15/xandros_microsoft_license/
>
> Microsoft uses the Xandros deal as a proxy to escape "antitrust" scrutiny
> and eliminate Scalix (or at least its cost advantage). It did the same
> with Citrix to hurt Xen for Linux, based on the announcement (reading
> between the lines). The XenSource partnership they had was apparently not
> enough.
>
> This is market abuse. Microsoft is throwing away a lot of money to buy its
> competition through partners and sockpuppets. Argghhh!!
>
Sorry, I have to disagree with this one.
You see Xandros desktop is one of those who wants to be in the workplace as
an office OS and application suite. One of those office functions that is
getting used more and more is the mobile telephone or PDA sync.
We can do those in Linux with varying degrees of success, if ActiveSync
protocol licencing gives Xandros a leg up in the sync side then that must
be to the good of Linux in the workplace.
The email side could be said to be under the same banner, presumably MS have
shown Xandros how to attach to their mail exchange (did we have trouble
connecting to that? I thought we already had that part).
The remote applications side, Citrix and Xen (not really the same things by
the way), MS's current main target is web applications so we shouldn't be
surprised if they buy up the best one available and use that as their own.
Well lets face it, on MS's current record if you were put in charge of the
development team and told to create a web application server, you would
have to risk the chair throwing and say 'Sorry Ballmer, but we can't manage
that. But we can probably write you a really good tic-tac-toe for the games
folder'.
Citrix does work very well, most of our users work with local
application-remote data, but some of the remote applications are quite
good. Still extraordinarily slow to load up but once loaded it responds
well,
I still believe that MS don't do that part right at all, it really should
not be that slow. They should be getting simmilar speeds as we get with
Xforwarding a major application, such as Staroffice calc, but MS apps are
much much slower and the problem there is that you have to go through it
for each session.
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