On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:13, Peter Van Lone wrote:
These businesses want all systems to play nicely together, with a minimum of fuss. This kind of agreement between Novell and Microsoft is exactly what they want. It may in the end prove hightly beneficial to linux in general. It may not.
I think that's the key here, and the only real plus for Novel is their network management suite, which largely pre-dates the SuSE purchase. It is the only thing out there capable of managing 4 to 4000 PCs spread all over the world. Microsoft needed it. Novel had it. So why is Novel sending money to Microsoft? THATS what I want to know. Both of them should be sending money to VmWare for the virtualization aspect, because both of the other products suck. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen