M Harris
On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
believing that people LIKE windoze... DONT THEY GET IT!!! .... the reason we run Linux is because we HATE windoze....
That may be the reason why you run linux, but it's hardly a reason for major corporations, and this announcement is aimed squarely at major corporations
A CTO would be fired on the spot if he played by emotions Who are you trying to kid?
Corporations hate windoze. Ask any of the corporations which have been skewered by M$, or ask any of the corporations (or non emotional individuals) involved in M$ anti-trust class action lawsuits (like the one in Minnesota for example) or ask any of the millions of corporate managers across America who are hamstrung by the M$ "corporate parasite" that crashes and burns (literally) millions of hours of person-productive time. Oh, they hate windoze assuredly. But they say it differently...
But still cooperations have to interact with MS software - and now they can more easily have Linux interact with MS, so it should be a win for them, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126