Novell Linux Business Spikes Since Microsoft Deal 147
StonyandCher writes "Novell's divisive deal with Microsoft has apparently resulted in some financial success for the company. PC World is now reporting that the company's Linux business has risen about 250% since the deal was announced last November. From the article: '[Novell director of marketing Justin Steinman] said part of its growth was directly related to the Microsoft deal, adding that Novell has billed more than US$100 million in business through its Microsoft relationship. He added that the growth was also due to the halo effect of the arrangement. "When we're out there competing with Red Hat, [our salespeople] are saying, 'Our Linux is recommended by Microsoft,' and customers that already have a Windows investment say it seems to make sense to pick the Linux that works with Windows."'"
Red Hat is also doing well (Score:5, Informative)
So maybe Novell and Red Hat's recent success is independent of the MS deal.
One or two customers (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Marketing (Score:2, Informative)
HTH.
Re:Works with Windows, or MS? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Marketing (Score:5, Informative)
Ubuntu, on the other hand, requires roughly 3 hours of hacking and coding. Canonical has no interest whatsoever in making it play nice with Windows beyond implementing and supporting SMB.
SUSE 10.0 is sleek indeed (Score:2, Informative)
It's very nice as a corporate desktop.
Pros:
It has connected to our Directory seamlessly during installation.
All network printers and shares are OK, with correct access rights.
Installation and driver support, IMO is the best among all Linuxen( ~xes?
The domain controller recognized it as a domain member and listed it as such.
Nice and laconic KDE (but the installation defaults to Gnome).
Slack-derived init scripts and layout (well, I personally like it more then Debian-derived one).
Cons:
It does not have text mode installation target.
Yast is absent (I really liked it in previous versions!).
Conclusion:
I like it!
Disclaimer:
I run at home two SUSE (old 10.0, non-enterprise one) servers for about 3 years.
Previously they were powered by SUSE 9.3 and before that by Slackware.