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Microsoft's Chief Linux Strategist Interviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

sl0wp0is0n writes "Computerworld has published an interview with Microsoft's chief Linux strategist, Martin Taylor. It's interesting to find out that Microsoft thinks and predicts Novell (SuSE) will be the dominant Linux distribution they'll have to compete against. The interview also has Taylor talking about indemnification, IBM and his realization that customers generally adopt Linux to get a better TCO than Unix, not Windows."

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  1. This has got to please IBM...not by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny
    So you think, in the long term, Novell is your greatest Linux competitor?
    After the Great OS2/WindowsNT Divorce, and all of those cool Developer Works articles since, IBM still can't get no lovin' in Redmond...
    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. I can't work out what this means by random_rabbit · · Score: 5, Funny
    And you can end up with Linux not being Linux, but Red Hat Linux being different than Novell SUSE Linux, Debian Linux and Mandrake, or whatever the case is. We're already beginning to see some of that with how they're taking snapshots of the kernel, where the kernel is and putting it into their distributions.

    Could anyone explain that to me? This guy is explaining that people put KERNELS into DISTRIBUTIONS?
    1. Re:I can't work out what this means by faceonbackward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm calling the metaphor police.

  3. Microsoft's Chief Linux Strategist? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You got to love the title.

    It's like:
    Chinese government's Chief human rights activist.

    Vatican's Chief birth control strategist.

    McDonald's Chief vegetarian strategist.

    What a great title!

  4. GNU by wikinerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should be Microsoft's Chief GNU/Linux Strategist, except if they feel that only the kernel threatens them.