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The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld)The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld)Posted Nov 19, 2008 20:32 UTC (Wed) by BackSeat (subscriber, #1886)Parent article: The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld) About 100 customers are covered by the Novell-Microsoft agreement Am I the only one that finds that magnificently underwhelming? Even if that were 100 big customers - and there's no indication that it is - that must represent an infinitesimal percentage of Microsoft customers that use some kind of Linux somewhere. BS
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The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld) Posted Nov 19, 2008 21:00 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
It's about as exciting as the number of users of Oracle Linux, IIRC.
The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld) Posted Nov 19, 2008 21:57 UTC (Wed) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]
are the numbers of / revenue from SLES subscribers not published anywhere?
Anyway, if these are all big and reliable customers, such as investment banks or the automotive industry, why worry?
The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld) Posted Nov 20, 2008 3:26 UTC (Thu) by tseaver (subscriber, #1544) [Link]
I'm enjoying the irony of your choice of industries there, at least
for the U.S.A., where we are actively debating / implementing bailouts for both of them.
Perhaps we should lobby our congresscritters to make adoption of FLOSS
The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later (InfoWorld) Posted Nov 20, 2008 7:20 UTC (Thu) by avik (subscriber, #704) [Link]
Why not making the right to vote conditional on the adoption of FLOSS as well? After all, both are all about choice.
And this IS why they are reliable customers, you know... Posted Nov 20, 2008 18:29 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] I'm enjoying the irony of your choice of industries there, at least for the U.S.A., where we are actively debating / implementing bailouts for both of them. "Normal" businesses are not reliable customers: if it fails it fails. But if investment banks or the automotive industry fails government steps up and the customer is still out there (may be with different name, but it's not goes away).
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