Partnership with MS?

Partnership with MS?

Posted Nov 3, 2006 11:14 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Partnership with MS? by dion
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

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.

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