On Tuesday 07 November 2006 10:26, Gordon Keehn wrote:
I see it as a classic Divide-and-Conquer move directed at RedHat. First M'soft convinces the world that Novell / SuSE is the way to go for interoperability. Then when RedHat is pretty much out of the picture as a commercial force, they pull one of their classic changes of direction and leave Novell hanging in the breeze, having eliminated the other major force in the market. Then they can turn on Novell. Trust Microsoft? About as far as I can throw Bill Gates' bank statement.
I think you've broken the code. I had thought that MS's plan was to put Novell/SuSE out of business but I hadn't thought about how they could get RH too. After 7 years of SuSE and being very happy with it, I just downloaded Kunbuntu. Probably will make the switch soon.