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The Differences Between Red Hat and Novell

Posted by Zonk on from the besides-the-fact-that-they're-two-companies dept.

Tiberius_Fel writes "A former Novell employee has done a comparison at InfoWorld, reflecting on the business practices of Red Hat and Novell. They focus on such areas as customers, culture, and partners." From the article: "Red Hat has a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners approach to the market. If you're not making them money, you're not going to get their ear ... This has led the growing open source ecosystem to Novell, which is partner-centric and easy-going almost to a fault. Ron Hovsepian is changing this, and Novell is starting to become much more choosy about opportunities (customer and partnering) that come its way."

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  1. Re:For profits are like that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    no, but you are still an arse.

  2. Re:Because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bill? Is that you?

  3. Re:Not much of an article. by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Funny
    It must be a slow news day.

    Manye that's why they're running "stories" about how big an actor's penis is. Could be worse, though I can't think how at the moment.