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On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:05 +0000, Michael. E. Rentell wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Good day all,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">This just in from a friend who said - click this:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15914222.htm">http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15914222.htm</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Anyone know anything more?</FONT>
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Last time i spoke to Rev. Ted the stance appeared to be that they could already run windows in virtualised environments, but they could run SLED on SLES in paravirtualised mode which means that an application can run on a different kernel/server but appears on your desktop X server. He was saying that they wanted to get the microsoft paravirtualisation working so windows applications could run on a SLED desktop without wine. <BR>
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The other things they were working on was active directory/eDirectory working together to provide all AD services via eDirectory and Heimdal kerberos. The idea with this deal is to make these things easier and to do so without infringing microsofts patents. The craziest irony of this is that microsoft believe that they'll be offering virtualised linux workstations or a mix or visa versa from a windows server but the reality is that this enables novell to put microsoft in a paravirtualised bottle. In the enterprise they are more inclined to use novell directory services, because they are better at it but exchange (roll on hula!!) and microsoft office are still a requirement for many businesses.<BR>
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The fact of the matter is that linux has had microsoft running scared for a few years now, and with vista looking pig ugly and increasing the training requirement (anyone seen ribbon in IE7? thats the thing that replaces the file/edit menus) and Linux desktops with AIGLX and Xgl/Compiz/beryl and other goodness microsofts desktop architecture is moving toward home users at the same time alienating them while the desktop infrastructure in Linux is improving toward all user demographics. <BR>
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In the next few years you'll see some work concentrating on beryl, eDirectory, hula and Xen while open office still lags behind it will hopefully get a boost in the near future. Interoperability has killed microsoft in the EU so they need to get some of that market back, they believe that working with novell will boost their customer base in the enterprise. Eventually we'll be able to run a windows kernel inside a Xen bottle with applications running on that kernel appearing on the linux desktop. Apple are already working on this, and it'll be nice to have the same kind of functionality in Linux.<BR>
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K,
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