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Cannibals in the house...Cannibals in the house...Posted Feb 2, 2007 1:01 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659)Parent article: Novell launches Red Hat-to-SUSE Linux migration course
Will someone please explain to me: how is this not at least as odious as Mark Shuttleworth's invitation to OpenSUSE contributors to jump ship for Ubuntu? The only difference I can see is that Shuttleworth was [rightfully motivated by | taking advantage of] Novell's Microsoft deal.
Either way, cannibalizing each other's business in an ecosystem where each uses and builds on the other's code is shortsighted at best. I remember when Caldera started to do this, thinking to myself, "Oh dear, the beginning of the end for what used to be a fine distribution." Little did I know at the time how ghastly that end would be!
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Not at all the same thing Posted Feb 2, 2007 6:41 UTC (Fri) by jayorke (guest, #10685) [Link] Its a course on how to do a migration and what the differences are between the two. It does not steal linux developers from one free distribution to another nor are details about the course posted by an executive in a Red Hat forum to rub people the wrong way. It is a course for administrators, not open source developers. Hopefully you can see the difference. If you work in a company which will be installing Suse but previously had Red Hat this course is of benefit.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 7:06 UTC (Fri) by macson_g (subscriber, #12717) [Link] Little competition won't hurt. And I think this one is particularly healthy.
Mark Shuttleworth's "invitation" was addressed to developers, and caused mixed reactions, while the course is addressed to admins (read: clients) and looks like casual business offer.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 11:14 UTC (Fri) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link] Such a course has obvious practical benefit to users/companies in such a situation. This makes it somewhat different from empty posturing.
Cannibals in the house... Posted Feb 2, 2007 21:32 UTC (Fri) by huaz (guest, #10168) [Link] It's called competition.
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