Partnership with MS?

Posted Nov 3, 2006 10:22 UTC (Fri) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link]

Look at Mephis have switched all but one of my Linux machines to Mephis now
SuSe lost there way after 9.2 10.0 sucks but just about works 10.1 and up are nowt but bargepole fodder

Posted Nov 3, 2006 11:14 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

It seems that every time someone partners with MS they get pummeled, so this does not bode well for SuSE.
Exactly how MS will try to destroy Novell is not quite clear, but it will certainly be interesting to watch.

No, Microsoft isn't out to destroy Novell, at least not for a while. The point is probably to use Novell as a tool to undermine Red Hat and in general create divisions in the Linux community.

By the way, Novell hasn't been averse to using intellectual property FUDding even before this. Two years back I sat at a presentation where a Novell salesman explained how safe choice SuSE is, because Novell has rights to Unix, so SCO cannot attack Novell customers. I'm sure they will now on use this patent pact with Microsoft to convince nervous suits that SuSE is the only safe Linux distribution for enterprises, because others might be attacked by Microsoft.

Posted Nov 3, 2006 13:44 UTC (Fri) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463) [Link]

It seems that every time someone partners with MS they get pummeled, so this does not bode well for SuSE.

Yep. The best thing you can do about Microsoft is nothing having to do with it. As a little fish you don't want to go swimming with the shark. You'll get killed or eaten (read: go bankrupt or get bought) most probably.

So I don't think this is wise.