[Liverpool] Novell and Microsoft (you know we had to)

[Vladimir Jakubovskij]

Is there Novel branch in Liverpool?

On 11/16/06, William Sanders / EFG <wsanders at efgroup.net> wrote:
>
> You could have an IBM rep and a Novell Rep come to the UG meeting and
> either
> have a battle or a marketing pitch competition.
> I've seen both vendors stuff last year when I was living in Singapore -
> they WILL come IF you ask them.
>
> IBM is committed to the open source movement with it's linux offering -
> and
> really, it's IBM vs Novell for commerical linux usage, not MicroSoft.
>
> Regards [Bill]
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aidan McGuire" <amcguire at bluefountain.com>
> To: "Liverpool Linux User Group" <liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Liverpool] Novell and Microsoft (you know we had to)
>
>
> > I would agree, should we invite someone from novel and ask them to
> > explain their "deal" if they dont  perhaps we should put up somewhere
> > we are opposed to the deal
> > this may mean for those of us who use suse to start thinking of a
> > switch.
> >
> >
> > On 15 Nov 2006, at 22:33, tony burrows wrote:
> >
> > > Omar Baqueiro wrote:
> > >> Greetings,
> > >>
> > >> So, after some time I am sure everyone here has heard about the news
> > >> that Microsoft is shelling out some cash to Novell in order to "get
> > >> into" the Linux buisness. (just take a look at google news ito learn
> > >> about it: http://news.google.com/news?q=microsoft+novell+linux).
> > >>
> > >> My question would be, what is the opinion of the people over here?
> > >> Does anyone in this group uses SUSE or Novel enterprise linux?
> > >>
> > >> My opinion is that the deal can not go wrong for Open Source as there
> > >> is *no way* Microsoft can shut down the movement for itself. On the
> > >> other hand, if Microsoft made some software available for Linux it
> > >> would only benefit it.
> > >>
> > >> Well, a prety small comment. Hoping not to start a flame war.
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >>
> > >> Omar.
> > > The samba team seem to think it's a bad thing
> > > http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell/
> > >
> > > Personally I think they may have a point.  MS can see Linux as a
> > > threat in the future and look as if they want to bring it 'into the
> > > fold' as far as possible to keep users as people who have to put up
> > > with what they are given.  But then, I've always been a cynic.
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
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