[nylug-talk] Microsoft Linux

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 15:43, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 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
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Not to air my own naivete out too much, but did not Apple enter into the same 
sort of agreement with Microsoft in 1997? It seems as if that company faired 
pretty well from the resulting exchange.
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