The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide open to
Ubuntu
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| In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear that
| their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer. What they
| do not know is that they just left the door wide open for Ubuntu to conquer
| the desktop and the server space.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102011/index.html
Microsoft and Novell: Exonerating Chinese piracy?
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| I will admit, I am laughing as I type this. The news that Microsoft and
| Novell are taking their interoperability roadshow to China is hilarious on a
| number of different levels.
|
| [...]
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| I bet! I suspect Nie Hua was crying himself to sleep at night before
| Microsoft and Novell approached him with this. You can just imagine his
| fretting: "How will I deal with the uncertainty of Linux's intellectual
| property position unless Microsoft, which has attempted to introduce the
| uncertainty, blesses my Linux distribution?" Give me a break.
|
| [...]
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| It is almost certainly true, however, that both Microsoft and Novell need to
| curry favor with China. Microsoft, because Windows is already free (as in
| pirated) in China. And Novell, because Linux is, oddly enough, pirated in
| China and to the extent that it's paid for, Red Flag Linux dominates the
| market.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9924261-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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Novell congratulates itself for snogging Microsoft
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| Novell wants you to know that selling its soul to Steve Ballmer was a really
| good idea.
|
| On the last day of 2007, two separate Novell execs tossed up blog posts
| congratulating themselves for agreeing to that "interoperability partnership"
| with Microsoft, a year-old deal intent on forcing an unholy relationship
| between Linux and Windows.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/03/linux_pats_self_on_back/
Novell Wasn't Profitable Even After Sugar From Microsoft
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| Even with that "sugar" from Microsoft, Novell didn't end up profitable for
| the year. I don't know how much of the $355.6m payment was recognized as 07
| revenue but Novell still ended fiscal 07 with a $44.5 million loss.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23465
Why is there no Open Source SLES ?
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| One of them is that the SLES community is much smaller and more aimed at
| proprietary software. Novell itself is promoting Mixed Source and promotes
| its own proprietary software on top of SLES (also see OES). This obviously
| scares part of the community away. The deal with Microsoft obviously does as
| well. As a result Novell is big within Enterprises with little community
| people, and these are not the kind of people that would spend their free time
| rebuilding packages and do QA.
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| Another reason is that Novell is not in favor of such a project (even though
| people from within Novell _and_ people in the SLES community disagree with
| management) because it fears it will take away some of the profit and Novell
| made a big risk by taking the Linux route, they cannot afford to make it
| fail.
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http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/why-is-there-no-open-source-sles
Is it Microsoft + Novell or Microsoft vs. Novell?
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| Actually, this is very surprising. I've started to notice a trend in all the
| announcements the two companies have made over the past year: Novell stresses
| interoperability while Microsoft beats its drum on patent protection.
|
| [...]
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| I wonder how long Microsoft will continue its efforts to try to cast the deal
| as about IP. It's not for Novell, it seems to me now. Microsoft did the deal
| to hurt Linux - there's no other explanation for it. It has no fiduciary duty
| to enable a competitor (unless its a weaker competitor against the Linux
| market leader, Red Hat). It has a fiduciary duty to kill that competitor.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9813681-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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| That these claims also could be taken to mean that Novell is developing a
| non-standard Linux, one that is skewed only towards working with Windows,
| appears to have escaped Novell.
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| In other words, Novell has an "in" with Microsoft which Red Hat does not;
| Utah and Redmond are in bed together and Red Hat is an intruder.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/14695/1091/
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