[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[Ron Guerin]

Tom Moran wrote:
> On Thursday night, I asked Jeff Jaffe, Novell's chief technology officer, if
> he could think of a company that had partnered with Microsoft and done
> really well as a result. Which Microsoft alliance, I asked him, would he
> cite as the model that he'd like to emulate?
> 
> His response: "I think this partnership is breaking new ground."
> 
> Um, right. Unfortunately, the new ground they're breaking is probably
> Novell's gravesite.

History is littered with the corpses of Microsoft's "partners".  When I
used to take people on a sort of guided tour of PC Expo, when we'd pass
the "Microsoft Partner Pavilion", I'd always say some variation of "Take
a good look at those companies.  Those are the firms Microsoft will put
out of business next."

- Ron