Microsoft/Novell

[John McGregor]

Much has been made here and elsewhere about the doomsday pact that 
Novell made with Microsoft and how it bodes evil for Linux in general. 
However, I have the gut feeling that Novell and only Novell found itself 
in the deep shit. Today I came across this press announcement on Linux 
World for Suse Enterprise Server 10 (originally publishedat 
approximately the same time as Novell states the negotiations with 
Microsoft began). Here is a selected quote form the article that is 
particularly telling:

"The company also announced the Open Workspace Suite, a software package 
which includes GroupWise collaboration, ZENworks and Open Enterprise 
Server. Users of the Novell Open Workspace Suite can deploy either 
Windows XP or SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on their workstations or 
laptops.'

My bet is that this goes way beyond Samba and getting it to work 
required that Novell go wading in the Microsoft minefield. In the 
process, Novell gave Baldy, whose favourite hobby is spewing 
vituperative fud, enough ammunition to keep him happy for a long time. 
For the rest of us, simply avoiding Novell's solution (like the plague 
it is) will keep us well away from Microsoft's designs.

The full article can be found here:
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/032006-novell-suse-linux.html

John

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