Novell will "attack" Microsoft
At a meeting with reporters in Sydney, Australia, Novell CEO and President Novell Ron Hovsepian made a truly exciting statement. Not embarrassed by the words, Ron said that his company would “vigorously attack Microsoft” and its new operating system Vista.
We must immediately say that Hovsepian apparently did not go mad and did not declare war on Microsoft at all with a break of all relations. He commended Novell’s collaboration with MS and assured them that they received a lot of useful things from this business partnership.
However, the main purpose of the joint work, he called one. The only way to survive in the software market and not be crushed by the “ruthless power” of Microsoft is to go right behind her. The closer Novell specialists are selected to its customers, the greater the chances of luring them to Linux.
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For example, thanks to connections received through MS, Novell took over the leadership of the Peugeot auto concern, with whom it was possible to conclude a contract for installation and maintenance on their PCs and servers of thousands of Suse Linux distributions.
According to Ron, Vista was developed for a very long time and five-year cooking in its own juice made its code very complicated and confusing. Free OSs do not have this drawback, and this can be wrapped up with an important advantage in the competitive struggle for the consumer.
Describing the contract itself with Microsoft, Hovsepyan convinced journalists that this was not a forced step. A confident understanding of all the implications and goals of this document made it possible to abandon the mutual licensing agreements on patented technologies that have been imposed on Novell, which are likely to damage the entire Open Source community as a whole.
Officials say that in the future cooperation between the two companies will continue without significant changes. But the sharp languages ​​of critics (see, for example, here ) still haunt the leadership of the recently respected, and now cursed, Novell. One thing is good: it seems to go for everything, just to restore its former reputation.
We must immediately say that Hovsepian apparently did not go mad and did not declare war on Microsoft at all with a break of all relations. He commended Novell’s collaboration with MS and assured them that they received a lot of useful things from this business partnership.
However, the main purpose of the joint work, he called one. The only way to survive in the software market and not be crushed by the “ruthless power” of Microsoft is to go right behind her. The closer Novell specialists are selected to its customers, the greater the chances of luring them to Linux.
')
For example, thanks to connections received through MS, Novell took over the leadership of the Peugeot auto concern, with whom it was possible to conclude a contract for installation and maintenance on their PCs and servers of thousands of Suse Linux distributions.
According to Ron, Vista was developed for a very long time and five-year cooking in its own juice made its code very complicated and confusing. Free OSs do not have this drawback, and this can be wrapped up with an important advantage in the competitive struggle for the consumer.
Describing the contract itself with Microsoft, Hovsepyan convinced journalists that this was not a forced step. A confident understanding of all the implications and goals of this document made it possible to abandon the mutual licensing agreements on patented technologies that have been imposed on Novell, which are likely to damage the entire Open Source community as a whole.
Officials say that in the future cooperation between the two companies will continue without significant changes. But the sharp languages ​​of critics (see, for example, here ) still haunt the leadership of the recently respected, and now cursed, Novell. One thing is good: it seems to go for everything, just to restore its former reputation.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3362/
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