The Waltham Pact: Where are the tangibles?

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I don't see it.

I don't see where this is helping anyone. It seems like any help MS is giving to Novell is being tied up at Novell. For instance Novell's version of Open Office. I don't really see any of that coming down or over to other vendors.

Also lets look at the big linux players. Who is king? Red Hat. Why is Red Hat king? Because while Novell is trying to make Suse do the dance with Windows, Red Hat is doing what they do best.. LINUX!

To be honest I think Oracle is doing Linux as well and getting as much business as Novell at this point! LOL!

But really MS is only helping Novell's bottom line in the short term. MS will make a small profit. Novell will get a couple of buckets of cash and Red Hat will be the first billion dollar open source company.

Suse is a great product but it's getting too netware like. Kind of open, mostly closed and soon forgotten.

Posted by: tymiles   Posted on: 08/20/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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