Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 19:58:05 -0800
Tom <tb.31020.nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:27:32PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > Mr. RH CEO tastes sour grapes because IBM dropped US$50M into Novell
> >
> > effectively choosing SuSE's dance card over the RH's. Mr. RH CEO
> > peed into the OSS well. He should have kept his mouth shut. Then
> > again he might be positioning RH for sale to M$.
>
> I thought RH and IBM were tight; RH was essentially IBM's Linux
> support department (not literally, just sort of).
>
Not good business to keep all your eggs in one basket though.
Also, these guys are good at long term strategy.
Novell, along with Cisco and the U.S. Govt., have a major interest in
the development of 'Abilene', the support network for Internet2.
Employing open source to create a closed network. SuSE have just landed
the Linux contract for the entire German Govt., I.B.M. picking up the
deal on hardware supply and training. I.B.M.s' latest move has been a
$50 million investment in Novell. All very cosy.
I.B.M., along with Microsoft, has an interest in the Royal Bank of
Canada, the institution that supplied SCO with its' bankroll.
I'm sitting back wondering what's going to come out of it all.
Linux people are running around saying 'this corporation's good, and
that one is bad', when as far as I am concerned, corporations don't have
personalities,-their lifeblood is profit. Period. Fullstop.
If anybody thinks that corporate involvement with Linux has got anything
to do with anything but a reduction in overhead,-nice stuff if you can
afford to smoke it.
H.P., slandered as it has been, appears to have been the only corporate
body that has exhibited any real long term commitment, so far.
Regards,
David.
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