Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 27, 2008 10:40 AM
Novell has a long story with "coopetition", a term that expresses something between cooperation and competition. This business model was certainly at the heart of their intentions at that time when Novell has knocked at the MS door, a little bit more than 2 years ago from now, proposing them some cross-collaborations. Novell always said this move was necessary for helping enterprises in their needs of mixing both technologies, windows and linux. Part of this deal, there was some royalities clarifications with their own proprietary softwares depending on some patented technologies and concluding on a "casesuits umbrella" (including Novell's linux world) against each other (as a normal process in this case as in any industrial colaborative deals). The results of that deal are seen today as a success story by analysts on the business ground and by costumers also.
I think that Novell has now some materials in hands to go the same way with Sun as with MS. First, OpenSolaris will go further its own way of development without fear of any bad story in a courtroom, and parhaps evolving to the most popular GPL. Second, Sun will propose SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) as an alternative OS (the default and the best one for marketing) to OpenSolaris on their own machines. And third, behind the sceene, there will be some cross-licensing developments in the Java and mySQL arena (remember that JBoss has gone to Red Hat). Also in the infrastructure arena there are things to do with directories and datacenter tools, and why not with some good system tools.
This kind of deal will certainly be a good deal with new opportunities for everyone. But be patient, it needs few month until it may become official (if that will hapen like this). Perhaps Sun will make some claims to have its money back from SCO, and Novell as the first witness. But bankruptcy protection won't help to go this way... today.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 89.226.25.45] on July 27, 2008 10:40 AMI think that Novell has now some materials in hands to go the same way with Sun as with MS. First, OpenSolaris will go further its own way of development without fear of any bad story in a courtroom, and parhaps evolving to the most popular GPL. Second, Sun will propose SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) as an alternative OS (the default and the best one for marketing) to OpenSolaris on their own machines. And third, behind the sceene, there will be some cross-licensing developments in the Java and mySQL arena (remember that JBoss has gone to Red Hat). Also in the infrastructure arena there are things to do with directories and datacenter tools, and why not with some good system tools.
This kind of deal will certainly be a good deal with new opportunities for everyone. But be patient, it needs few month until it may become official (if that will hapen like this). Perhaps Sun will make some claims to have its money back from SCO, and Novell as the first witness. But bankruptcy protection won't help to go this way... today.
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