LinuxWorld: Other parts of the deal -- was there anything in there that was actually relevant to improving interoperability between --?

Allison: No, I’m sorry. I know what you’re going to ask. I mean that part I found amusing rather than anything else because the whole point of it was saying that, oh, we’re going to improve interoperability. But if you look at it closely, I think it covers some very specific federated directory things, which essentially very few people in the world actually care about.

What people really want is a second source Active Directory replacement. Let’s just say Novell was doing interesting work. That’s what Samba 4 is about, and they’re always doing a lot of interesting work there. But people who think that Microsoft will now give the information that is needed in order to do that to Novell just because of this deal are delusional. What you have to think about is that essentially Microsoft has been fighting tooth and nail not to give away any of this information to free software projects. So, they may think that just because they signed some patent cross licensing deal with Novell -- even though Microsoft really, really wanted the patent cross licensing deal, just because they signed that, do you think they’re going to give away stuff that they essentially have fought absolutely and completely against the EU and paid billions of dollars in fines to avoid. So, no, that’s not going to happen.

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That is around what I meant, in terms of servers. No Microsoft would never ever, or at least not for a while, make it to where Linux and Microsft were 100% compatible. I meant on a server side. It is hard for businesses to have a Linux and Windows server and some don't have the time to learn SAMBA that some of us would. Hence companies like Centeris existing. I think the virtualization thing is a stretch for both MS and Novell but we'll see how it happens. I find it interesting that they opt to use XEN Instead of like, VMWare.

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