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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org