[Discuss] MS and Novell

[Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert]

How about Novell outs the screws to Miicrosoft, drops the multi-million dollars owed to Novell in favour of making Windows operate iin a more friendly manner with Linux.

Novell also made sure their free SuSe offering is equivalent to the one available for subscription, unlike RedHat and was one of the main reasons we moved to SuSe.  We use a lot of Oracle products, which developers can use and obtain for free, but then have to spend $4K to run them on RedHat (If they want to match their client environment).  Using SuSe our contracted developers can use the same target OS, get support if required (or we can raise the issue under our support agreements) and still aren't required to buy licenses.  It made me very unhappy to have been a supporter on RedHat's and bring in the first Oracle on RedHat installs here in Victoria, to have them close off their free offering and thereby limit the consulting community we were positioing to leverage.  Switching to SuSe maintained that original goal of a $0 software license load on the developer and keeping the more cautious client environment in a licensed, supported and local gov't standard Oracle db.


I'm happy that Novell was able and willing to convert lots of owed dollars into something that could potentially lower the barriers to using Linux in a Microsoft environment.  I can tell you that annoucement alone has lowered worries for clients here in the US (as of yesterday) of putting SuSe in the Windows data centre.

Cheers,
Thor HW


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at vlug.org on behalf of pw
Sent: Wed 11/8/2006 9:01 AM
To: discuss at vlug.org
Subject: [Discuss] MS and Novell
 

Hello,

Is Novell selling out to Microsoft to put the screws
to linux community?

How can Microsoft embrace and extend linux?

Any thoughts?

Peter

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