So Long, SuSE, We Hardly Knew Ye!

[Alma J Wetzker]

I thought that M$ was moving away from .NET technology with Vista.

    -- Alma

Ben Duncan wrote:
> I think it has more to do with the MONO project and the DotNet
> and GNU Dot Net than anything. It probably is also a "synergy"
> to stop the Oracle announcement of supporting RedHat Linux
> directly, which would put a crimp in SQL Server sales.
> 
>  From what information I can gather, M$ is going to put support
> dollars into the MONO project and the GnuDotNet. They already (M$)
> have paid for a REAL GOSH DARN working Python into the DotNet
> environment called IronPython, and it is left completely open
> sourced - amazingly ! They also did some support work on getting
> GTK, called GTK# working as well.
> 
> Anyway, not being a MS fanboy myself, and having just got started
> into the this "DotNEt" craze me-self, I am begrudgingly going to
> give a tip 'o the hat to it. The ideology seems to be sound, and
> it seems to be one place the (M$) seem to be willing to play fair -
> at least for the time being.
> 
> The darker side of me thinks that they are doing all of this to let
> it develop, support it as much as they can, then turn the good idea's
> and applications into a "ASP" models that they then will rent BACK to the
> BROADBAND consumers/Businesses so they will have a recurring source
> of income. Kinda like Cable TeeVee, but for the software industry.
> 
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>> http://tinyurl.com/y7rcmb
>>
>> So, Novell has sold out. I don't see how this makes good business sense in
>> the long term, except perhaps for Red Hat. You don't make deals with
>> Microsoft, because they'll find a way to to weasel out of it. Novell, of
>> all companies, should understand this well. Are memories so fscking short?
>>
>> This is now the second time that a distribution and the company behind
>> has sold us down the river. The first time it was OpenLinux and Caldera. Now
>> it is SLES/SLED/openSUSE and Novell.
>>
>> I'm sure it is only coincidence that both companies are Utah companies.
>> Strictly speaking, Novell is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
>>
>> Begrudgingly, Red Hat and Fedora have another customer.
>>
>> Kurt
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