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Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor? (Zonker's openSUSE spotlight)
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier looks
at the collaboration between Novell and Microsoft, on his openSUSE
blog. "The announcement went out today that Novell and Microsoft are
collaborating around the OpenPegasus project and other system management
tools. Thanks to Novell, Microsoft is going to be contributing to several
open source projects -- and making Linux easier to manage. Yes, you read
that right. It will also make Windows easier to manage using Linux tools --
which is going to be a breath of fresh air for Linux admins tasked with
managing Windows boxen as well."
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Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor? (Zonker's openSUSE spotlight) Posted Apr 30, 2008 20:53 UTC (Wed) by palapa (subscriber, #612) [Link] I presume that linux boxes will have a ~$200 per seat client license fee, while the Windows boxes will be free. In effect, MS gets their OS system profit back.
Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor? (Zonker's openSUSE spotlight) Posted Apr 30, 2008 22:38 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] Pardon the cynicism, but it sounds like microsoft wants to create a world where ms windoze is required in order to manage unix/linux.
Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor? Posted Apr 30, 2008 22:56 UTC (Wed) by ahoogerhuis (subscriber, #4041) [Link] I don't want to seem too cynical but untill I see that this isn't another grab at embrace and extend, another way of integration to make you dependent on MS products and see actual value here, I'll say this is just another case of embrace and extend and another way of making you locked into their platform. -A
Bringing Microsoft to the table: Can MS become an open source contributor? Posted May 1, 2008 16:49 UTC (Thu) by dennisk (guest, #12308) [Link] I agree with others here. If the ISO/OOXML fiasco has taught us anything it is that M$ is incapable of competing on a level playing field. Dennisk
I already use Windows to manage Linux (Zonker's openSUSE spotlight) Posted May 1, 2008 23:19 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] Since the fancy VPN client with the extra certification gizmos only runs on Windows, on my employer-supplied laptop, I have to use Windows. But Putty and SSH to a Linux command line takes care of the rest...
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