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Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-gonna-get-stranger dept.

dotnothing writes "microsoft-watch.com has an interview with Chris Stone, who is the Vice Chairman of Novell. Stone says that Novell will be introducing a Linux distribution with Novell products and the Ximian desktop, but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft. He also expressed some gratitude to Red Hat for countersuing SCO."

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  1. Re:not to compete with M$? by Havokmon · · Score: 4, Interesting
    but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft
    so, will they install Ximian on XP?

    Well, I work for a small company running Netware 5.1 and Win98 desktops. I'm looking into doing an LTSP+Mosix type setup, because we only use about 4 applications on older PII hardware.

    I'd hate to give up my Netware box, file permissions alone (Inherited rights/filters) are enough to keep me on it. Getting a seemless login (legally - I have an awesome NDS Pam module from France ;) from a Linux box would be awesome.

    So, no. In my case, they're not competing with MS, because MS isn't being considered.

    --
    "I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
  2. Re:Bet they hadn't thought of this by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't see why they could be against this idea. One thing that keeps many people away from switching to linux is that there are a lot of products you can't get for linux that you can get for windows. By making .Net for linux, software makers can easily port products from windows to linux. If done right, it would just be a matter of compiling it on a linux version of .Net and including a .run file with the distribution CD.

  3. Yay! by donmiguel42 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "We will have an Evolution-Groupwise connector."

    They aren't going to destroy Evolution AND they're going to make it work with GroupWise. Ahh... for those of us running Novell/Linux in the academic world who are getting rather tired of Microsoft's mafia-esque licensing tactics (software assurance, anyone?), this is great news. One less major hurdle between now and a Linux desktop rollout. Yay Novell!

  4. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by KamuSan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's a bad idea.

    Remember OS/2? No? See? Nobody remembers OS/2 (Bill Gates quote!).
    OS/2 ran Win3.1 apps natively, so nobody wrote OS/2 apps, but Win3.1 apps.

    The lesson is that as soon as you support somebody else's standard, then nobody has any reason to use your standard.