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Three Takers Named for Microsoft's Linux Support
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on Thu Dec 21, 2006 04:36 PM
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narramissic writes "According to an article on ITworld, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, and AIG Technologies have signed on for Microsoft's technical support for Novell Inc.'s Suse Enterprise Linux. This follows last month's announcement of a deal between Novell and Microsoft that Steve Ballmer described as an effort to 'bridge the divide between open-source and proprietary-source software.' None of the companies cited the price of the support certificates, nor would they say how many they were activating. Even more interesting, Credit Suisse is a brand new customer for Novell."
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itsatrap (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:itsatrap (Score:5, Funny)
Finally, (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, make that a perfect car analogy.
And so it begins. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~GodInHell/journal/)
Customer: "Please don't hurt me."
Ballmer: "These are some lovely client server apps you have here, it would be a shame if something were to.. happen to them..."
Customer: "Okay.. okay, I'll pay.... I'll pay" [quiet weeping].
-GiH
Re:And so it begins. (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday December 02 2003, @06:03AM)
So when is
Microsoft providing Linux Support? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://mesamike.org/)
Let the blind Microsoft bashing begin (Score:1, Interesting)
Blind MS bashing?! Are you kidding?! (Score:5, Insightful)
What?! Microsoft's CEO basically threatens companies that use Linux, and Microsoft isn't at fault?!
And I suppose if Guido says, "Bad things might happen to your family, Mr. Anonymous Coward, unless you pay me some 'protection' money...", then it isn't Guido's fault if you pay him for protection you don't actually need???
And you got modded Insightful! Unbelievable!
I, for one, am getting pretty tired of people whining that Microsoft gets unfairly bashed here on Slashdot too often. I regularly read plenty of responses that defend Microsoft that get modded +5 Insightful.
Great. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://electrob.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 27, @01:42PM)
Can you imagine? (Score:2)
<full body shudder>
I'd feel like I'd been shot down behind enemy lines. Or maybe more like a galley slave.
Re:Can you imagine? (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday March 01 2007, @01:53PM)
I think the only real problem here was the deliberate attempt to undermine the GPL. In the end, though, the effect is not as bad as we think. GPLv3 plugs the loophole, a Linux vendor gets a ton of cash from Microsoft, and life goes on. I don't like Novell getting in bed with Microsoft, but it's not like they had a whole lot of choice. $400 million is a lot to turn down on the basis of "principles", "morals" or "ethics". The important thing is that the timing of the announcement allowed the GPL to be developed to prevent any further deals of this nature to be made.
mandelbr0t
and Hubert Mantel rejoins Novell (Score:2, Insightful)
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6962961128.html [linux-watch.com]
Re:and Hubert Mantel rejoins Novell (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:and Hubert Mantel rejoins Novell (Score:4, Informative)
(http://jearl.0catch.com/)
It's easy enough to say that, but Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank AG, and AIG Technologies are not likely to be very happy when the next version of Samba rolls out and they can't use it because it is licensed under version 3 of the GPL and Novell can't distribute GPLv3 apps and still maintain its deal with Microsoft.
Novell has a vested interest in keeping the Free Software community happy because there is no way that Novell can compete if it has to maintain its own forks of popular Free Software projects. Novell is having enough trouble trying to convince customers that a migration from Netware to SuSE Linux makes more sense than a migration from Netware to Windows. The last thing Novell needs is this sort of drama.
Why? - Credit Suisse in particular (Score:4, Insightful)
What am I missing?
Re:Why? - Credit Suisse in particular (Score:5, Informative)
(http://neilmcallister.com/)
According to Matt Asay over at InfoWorld, [infoworld.com] this story is incorrect, or at best exaggerated. He says he has it on authority that all the companies mentioned in the story had been using both Suse and Red Hat for some time.
What's so intresting ? (Score:2, Insightful)
What's so intresting about that ?
It's not like Microsoft would start companies to make it look like people are actually supporting this thing.
A sales company (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Thursday December 08 2005, @04:33PM)
Why, oh way would you buy Linux support from Microsoft!
"Support" (Score:5, Interesting)
Honestly, the word "support" to me has almost no meaning anymore. It's been thrown out there so many times as the deciding factor in a purchase, however I've yet to see really useful support. I've dealt with companies big and small and have never resolved a difficult issue in less than an hour with their supplied support.
All I care about anymore is whether they give you the proper tools to solve the problem yourself. Proper documentation and the source code (yes, smaller companies will give you source code if you are big enough and that's the deal breaker). I'll take that over a level I phone jockey any day!
Masochists. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.thecircus.org/~bandman)
Tagging Beta (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday April 30 2007, @10:21PM)
BAD Headline... (Score:5, Informative)
My only regret (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/)
So I could close em.
They are... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.paulmischler.com/)
SUSE in Europe (Score:1)
If you can't beat 'em, make money off of 'em (Score:2, Insightful)
Misread the title. (Score:1)
Suse (Score:1)
(http://www.alhunt.com/)
See? MS might just help the linux community
Knowing MS (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday June 16, @05:44AM)
*Snort* (Score:2)
My sides are splitting.
How hard would it be (Score:1, Interesting)
Cause nobody can support LInux like... (Score:1, Funny)
Next - Microsoft is going to releas a Linux distro (Score:2)
Different OS Same Support (Score:1)
(http://googtube.blogspot.com/)
"Have you tried turning it off and on again? You have? Oh..... reinstall it."
Upgrade plan... (Score:1)
Bridge the divide? (Score:1)
Deutsche is dirty, remember Skiba? (Score:2)
http://www.dbankfraudinfocenter.com/ [dbankfraudinfocenter.com]
Remember Skiba? He was an analyst from Dutsche who - in deference to all logic and evidence - predicted that scox would climb to $45/share. For those who don't watch stock prices, scox is about $1 a share now.
Re:Hooray! (Score:1)
Re:Those swiss banks really have no scruples (Score:2)
Re:7troll (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Saturday June 30, @01:22AM)
Re:Those swiss banks really have no scruples (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/~GodInHell/journal/)
Acting agent would like to inform you that your comment was amusing - if foul.
-GiH
Re:Those swiss banks really have no scruples (Score:1)
You lose.