On 11/15/2006 01:50 PM, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:
The same deal, make me talk with our IT manager to start considering Novell Suse ( we are using Red Hat right know ), i don't see nothing but benefits for this deal.
So i would like to know what are the exact part of this deal, that make you step back from Novell.
-- Marcel Mourguiart
My fear comes from the fact that I have a strong sense that the Novell executives are not being honest about their reasons for the deal, and I believe they are withholding crucial details of it even from their own engineers. C'mon, if they've been trying to explain it to the Suse engineers for weeks now and they still don't get it, it's because the story doesn't make sense. I know for a fact that those guys aren't stupid. The Open Source developers at Novell were apparently not consulted about it until the days just preceding the public announcement, and even now they don't know the details of the contracts between MS and Novell. I don't understand why MS would pay a huge sum of money to: 1. Declare a patent detente that everyone claims is unnecessary. 2. Assist Novell with interoperability issues with Office (in a limited way) and with virtualization. It doesn't make sense - the Office teams have been cooperating quietly for a while now with no major announcements or exchanges of money. Why not keep doing it that way, except expand it to the virtualizaion teams? There is a lot of speculation about what the whole truth might include, but to me it doesn't matter. Right now I trust the executives at Novell just as much as I trust those at Microsoft. Which is really a shame because I think the Novell/Suse/Ximian developers are wonderful. I actually think switching to Suse a great idea - despite the Deal - because it's a great product. I think you'll enjoy both the technology and the community a lot. On the other hand I'm sincerely hoping that Red Hat doesn't go out of business in the next five years. Saill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org