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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. Red Hat/SCO legal docs by viewstyle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Speaking of Red Hat -- SCO released some of their legal threats which I found to be entertaining. Excerpts are in this story...

  2. not to compete with M$? by gurisees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft

    so, will they install Ximian on XP?

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  3. Right... by mschoolbus · · Score: 5, Funny

    "but that they are not out to compete with Microsoft"

    "Uh... Yeah... We want to sell this but, uh.. not a lot of it..." - Chris Stone

  4. Bet they hadn't thought of this by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stone: We are going to continue to push it. .Net on Linux is a great idea. We just hope Microsoft isn't against the idea.
    I'd 'just hope' Linux users aren't against the idea.

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    1. 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.

  5. Don't buy SCO. by nuggz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't buy out SCO, it is a bad investment.

    To buy SCO you would need a reason why this is a good use of money, to make them go away is probaly not a good use of corporate funds.

    Those millions could do a lot of legal fighting, or development, or even advertising. All with a better ROI then removing SCO.

  6. 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!

  7. SCO Teleconference by jmkaza · · Score: 5, Informative

    This may be a bit off topic, but I didn't want to submit a story and have two SCO headlines in a row. Darl's holding a teleconference today to answer questions about the Red Hat suit. The press release is here.
    Call 1 (800) 238-9007 and enter 274040 as the access code.

  8. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by alienw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why don't you people get a clue first? No underlying Mono infrastructure is threatened by patents, since ECMA requires that all patents be licensed at no charge, and .Net is standardized with them. There are a few pieces which could potentially be patented, but their removal would not significantly harm Mono. If Microsoft still hasn't sued the Wine project, there's a very slim chance they could sue Mono.

    Your other side of the argument is basically the "not invented here" thing. If Microsoft invented it, it must be bad for free software. It's not like Microsoft can force Mono to change its ways, so I fail to see your point. Mono is not a Wine clone, it's a development framework for Linux, one that could potentially be very useful for writing portable software.

    I don't see anyone here bitching about Java, even though it's also a similar, proprietary technology controlled by one party -- Sun. Hell, I would say that Linux is more of a threat to Sun than Microsoft. So why isn't Java a threat to Linux?

  9. 10 years later by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found this bit interesting:


    Microsoft Watch: Now that you are buying Ximian, will Novell offer a Linux desktop distribution?

    Stone: Yes. The plan is to package the Ximian desktop with some of our products. Specifics are yet to be determined. But we want to cover Linux from the desktop to the server.

    Ten years ago, Novell was the owner of DR-DOS, Netware, and Unixware, and had the potential to be a solutions provider for everything from the desktop, to medium sized workgroups, to enterprise scale solutions, but what did they do? They tried to compete against Lotus Smartsuite and MS Office with an office suite based on Quattro Pro and WordPerfect.

    NT wasn't even ready yet, they coulda been a contender...

  10. Re:This is why Mono is such a bad idea by alienw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OS/2 ran Win3.1 apps natively, so nobody wrote OS/2 apps, but Win3.1 apps.

    If OS/2 hadn't run Windows apps, nobody would have ever used it. The reason it died was the high price and poor hardware support (it didn't run on non-IBM machines without a lot of tweaking). Stop using that example, for fuck's sake.

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

    Does linux have anything remotely resembling .Net? Other than mono, of course.

  11. For another perspective by wahgnube · · Score: 5, Informative
    Check out this phone interview with Miguel on OSNews.com.

    Seems like all is well, for now anyway.

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