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Microsoft-Novell Relationship Hits the Skids
Anonymous writes "According to Channelweb, the bloom might be off the rose in the Novell-Microsoft relationship: the two companies didn't sign a single, solitary large customer to a Novell Linux deal during the most recent quarter. 'So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software. Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian has stepped up and, rather than point fingers at Microsoft for that performance, put the blame on his company and its inability to strengthen its reseller channel.'"
I invide the fattest and most delusional among you to try to explain this away.
Only an idiot tries to make money with Open Sores.
I'm in the "should use Linux" case you describe. Every year, I try to install Linux. Every year, I run into a hardware compatibility/driver roadblock, and fail to solve it after a handful of hours. I'm motivated to keep trying, even went as far as requesting advice on which components to use (cpu, gpu, sound...) for an easy Ubuntu install on a couple of Ubuntu forums: no useful answer.
I'll try again soon, and I'd dearly like it to work this time. I'm a fairly competent Windows user, building and installing PCs for myself and others, but I don't feel confident at all about recommendng let alone installing Linux yet.
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
Umm, any and every large corporation that uses Linux? You think any large company will just download Ubuntianix 3.9 and install it on their computers? How quaint of you.
This article is bullshit anyway, because I happen to work at a 50000+ employee corporation that uses SLES 9 and SLES 10. We aren't a new customer, but Novell is certainly getting money out of us.