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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. Shock! by delta_avi_delta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Business Seek to Stay Solvent! The cheek!

    I know we like our OSS community to be warm and fuzzy, but these guys need to make money. If they have to get a little less "easy-going" in the process, then so be it.

  2. Re:Because by LMariachi · · Score: 1, Redundant

    DOS is a version of Windows?