Microsoft/Novell Partnership

[ted leslie]

hmmm ... ok so it is basically 

Microsoft/Novell Linux   now (forget about waiting 5-6 years)
(at least the enterprise version)

i wonder, i bought it for 50$, (enterprise desktop)
will the price stay the same, and now i will get in that
all the rights to .Net (patents), maybe even windows media player?
well thats more destop? so maybe not.
Really interesting announcement,
but Balmer let it slip once "patent settlement"  :)
This will put Novell into some pretty big shops, and into some big
deals. When the SCO case final gets put to pasture,
hopefully Linux  will just be on fire. 

-tl



On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:48 -0500, ted leslie wrote:
> shocked  -- yup!!
> one step closer to the worlds most popular OS in 5-6 year to be
> 
> ...... Microsoft Linux ........
> 
> nice that Linux final wins, just don't like this new vendor :(
> (not a vendor yet, but give it time!).
> 
> at least I can use Windows Forms (with peace of mind) now in Mono, for
> client side mass deployment.
> 
> a lot of hippies are going to bail from SUSE (for this), but Mono is
> just going to explode in use, if this press anouncement stands up.
> 
> I will probably just appreciate this  as just showing how weak MS is
> getting, and not judging SUSE/Novell to harshly on it.
> 
> Mono has to rule the world, and this takes it one step closer.
> (the programmer in me speaking here)
> 
> 
> -tl
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:26 -0500, Rick Tomaschuk wrote:
> > I'm as shocked as many others...
> > RickT
> > 
> > We have some exciting new developments in our Novell SUSE Linux
> > Enterprise story, and we'd like you to be the first to hear about it.
> > Please join us on Thursday, 2 Nov., at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > for a special CEO-Update Webcast at http://www.novell.com/webcast
> 
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