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[News] Op-ed: Novell Deal Turns Linux from Leader to Follower

  • Subject: [News] Op-ed: Novell Deal Turns Linux from Leader to Follower
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:27:11 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Did I press a few buttons or what!

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| There are better, more robust mail systems out there than exchange. So why is 
| Novell trying so hard to tow to Microsoft with its evolution? Oh I know the 
| answer to that. I will be told on no uncertain terms that exchange is the 
| enterprise standard. Who says?   
| 
| [...]
| 
| That was just one example and there are many others. The open source world 
| has many better enterprise ready solutions than Microsoft. You just have to 
| know what those alternatives are. There is no need for Linux to conform to 
| Microsoft. Linux needs to be and set the future of computing. Linux needs to 
| be a leader, not a follower. At the moment, due to Microsoft's manipulations, 
| Linux is turning from a leader to a follower and what is worse. You are 
| letting it!      
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-i-press-a-few-buttons-or-what-19032

OOXML, Silverlight. Novell is a Trojan horse.

Linux can deal with Exchange anyway, even some other more open protocols that
don't requite 'licensing'...

Upcoming features: Calendar syncing

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| And - as some commenters on the page there report - syncing calendars with 
| Thunderbird / Google / mobile phone or other devices works flawlessly. The 
| author is using it with his N70 for instance.  
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http://blog.thedebianuser.org/?p=232


Related:

Novell steering Microsoft defectors back to Microsoft?

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| In short, Novell is getting what it wants - to hurt Red Hat - but not
| getting what it really wants - to grow the market and take a larger
| share of that market. Novell may have succeeded in winning a skirmish,
| but is also helping to lose the battle, the war, and everything else
| for Linux/open source.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/novell_steering.html

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