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Re: [opensuse-project] Closing the Candor Gap at Novell
- From: Saill White <saill.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:46:22 -0800
- Message-id: <455CA3EE.4000107@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 11/16/2006 06:44 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> I still have some questions and it will take some time before I trust
> Microsoft...
Please keep us posted if you get any more answers. And let us know too if your trust level increases.
On 11/16/2006 06:47 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
> 3) There's something else Novell has agreed to that they don't tell us about.
Yes exactly. Microsoft bought something from Novell for a big hunk of money. It's not clear at all what they bought.
On 11/16/2006 07:11 AM, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
>> Saill White wrote (@ Quarta, 15 de Novembro de 2006 22:17):
>
>>> 2. Assist Novell with interoperability issues with Office (in a limited
>>> way) and with virtualization.
>>
>> The second point was obvious to me. Microsoft enterprise market is big but
>> unstable. A lot of customers are unsatisfied and they want a better solution.
>> However, because of interoperability problems, they either do a mass
>> migration or they stay the same due to the cost that implies. Either way,
>> it's bad for Microsoft to work in such an unstable market, so they try to
>> provide customers with an alternative of a mixed solution, as well as
>> technical support. This might be bad in a short term, but it will allow them
>> to keep a stable customer base, which is much better to work with and the
>> stock holders prefer.
The problem with that theory is that Microsoft doesn't need to pay money to find out how Linux works. Free software is free software, even in Redmond;)
Saill
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> I still have some questions and it will take some time before I trust
> Microsoft...
Please keep us posted if you get any more answers. And let us know too if your trust level increases.
On 11/16/2006 06:47 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
> 3) There's something else Novell has agreed to that they don't tell us about.
Yes exactly. Microsoft bought something from Novell for a big hunk of money. It's not clear at all what they bought.
On 11/16/2006 07:11 AM, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
>> Saill White wrote (@ Quarta, 15 de Novembro de 2006 22:17):
>
>>> 2. Assist Novell with interoperability issues with Office (in a limited
>>> way) and with virtualization.
>>
>> The second point was obvious to me. Microsoft enterprise market is big but
>> unstable. A lot of customers are unsatisfied and they want a better solution.
>> However, because of interoperability problems, they either do a mass
>> migration or they stay the same due to the cost that implies. Either way,
>> it's bad for Microsoft to work in such an unstable market, so they try to
>> provide customers with an alternative of a mixed solution, as well as
>> technical support. This might be bad in a short term, but it will allow them
>> to keep a stable customer base, which is much better to work with and the
>> stock holders prefer.
The problem with that theory is that Microsoft doesn't need to pay money to find out how Linux works. Free software is free software, even in Redmond;)
Saill
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