[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[Sunny Dubey]

On Friday 03 November 2006 12:14, alex khalil wrote:

>   Well, almost: Microsoft will support Novell's SUSE Linux

maybe its an attempt to belittle Redhat ??

1) Oracle and MSFT/Novell can claim some sort of IP protection, Redhat can't

2) Maybe there is a school of thought that assumes the more confusion among 
the major retail linux vendors, the slower the rate of adoption ??

We were always told to buy Redhat, but this new SLES stuff is Microsoft 
Certified ???

>   and enhance interoperability
>

1) without ever actually opening up the Exchange protocol or Office XML file 
format

2) its great PR for any and all anti-trust litigation