Novell and Microsoft Claim Customer Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @05:23AM from the quite-a-spin dept.

munchola writes "Novell and Microsoft have commissioned a survey to prove that customers love their interoperability and patent deal. According to the survey 'Ninety-five percent approve of the collaboration between Novell and Microsoft,' while 'four out of five believe their organization would consider doing more business with Linux dealers if Linux providers establish an alliance with Microsoft.' As CBRonline notes, however: 'Few people have claimed the deal is bad for Novell or Microsoft's customers. The question has been whether it is good for the open source movement, open source developers, or indeed Novell itself. Those issues do not appear to have been addressed by the survey.'"

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Interoperability is Obviously Good by acgrissom · 2006-12-12 05:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I don't see how collaborating int his area could possibly be bad. Certainly, it will give Novell/SuSE an advantage, but SuSE has consistently had features that other variations of Linux do not, such as bleeding edge drivers and early NTFS support (before it was common). There is certainly (justified) distrust of Microsoft in the Linux/open source community, especially given some of Steve Balmer's comments. ( http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005171 )
Congratulations by everphilski · 2006-12-12 06:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You are one of the 5%.