Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 03, 2006 10:44 PM
No one seems to understand what this is really about. This deal is about two things and nothing else.
1. It is about press and corporate image. Novell gets press and a stock boost. Microsoft gets press supporting the idea that it is working with the competition and that antitrust officials in the US and Europe can relax. Ultimately, it's smoke and mirrors for both companies.
2. Xen. Xen is the virtualization technology that Novell has chosen to use and it works fine. You can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware. It's cool. But there is a catch. The guest OS must be modified to run on XEN. That means that while you can recompile and run all the Linux and BSD kernels you want on Xen, Windows being closed source can't be modified and therefore can't be run on Xen. That is until now. Now with this agreement, Microsoft will place the necessary modifications into the Windows kernel to allow certain versions of Windows to run on Novell's Enterprise Linux and Xen.
What does Microsoft get? Some cash and see number 1.
Talk about Open Office interoperability is more smoke and mirrors. They are already interoperable and with Office 2007 supporting ODF, they will continue to be, regardless of this agreement.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 03, 2006 10:44 PM1. It is about press and corporate image. Novell gets press and a stock boost. Microsoft gets press supporting the idea that it is working with the competition and that antitrust officials in the US and Europe can relax. Ultimately, it's smoke and mirrors for both companies.
2. Xen. Xen is the virtualization technology that Novell has chosen to use and it works fine. You can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware. It's cool. But there is a catch. The guest OS must be modified to run on XEN. That means that while you can recompile and run all the Linux and BSD kernels you want on Xen, Windows being closed source can't be modified and therefore can't be run on Xen. That is until now. Now with this agreement, Microsoft will place the necessary modifications into the Windows kernel to allow certain versions of Windows to run on Novell's Enterprise Linux and Xen.
What does Microsoft get? Some cash and see number 1.
Talk about Open Office interoperability is more smoke and mirrors. They are already interoperable and with Office 2007 supporting ODF, they will continue to be, regardless of this agreement.
please send your conspiracy theorist emails to dev-null@example.com
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