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[News] Sun and Novell -- a Common Denominator?

  • Subject: [News] Sun and Novell -- a Common Denominator?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:41:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Microsoft and Sun agree to support each other in virtualized environments

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| Microsoft also announced on September 12 that it’s building an 
| interoperability center with Novell in Cambridge, Mass. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=712

Like Novell, they seem to be thinking that a pact with the devil, so to speak,
will somehow help their bottom line.

Note to Sun: Show Us Value, Not Tricks

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| Schwartz eliminated 4,000 jobs and took a weed-whacker to Sun's sprawling 
| research division, refocusing it on work that is likely to lead to new 
| products.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59286.html


Related:

Morton: no merging of OpenSolaris with Linux

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| Don’t expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux 
| kernel, said a top  Linux maintainer. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1295


Sun Microsystems to reduce work force

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| Sun has been aggressively cutting costs since Jonathan Schwartz took over as 
| chief executive in April 2006 from co-founder Scott McNealy. 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/ap_on_hi_te/sun_microsystems_job_cuts


Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn

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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html

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