February 16, 2007 at 02:32Novell will attack Microsoft
At a meeting with reporters in Sydney, Australia, CEO and Novell President Ron Hovsepian made a truly exciting statement. Without hesitation, Ron said his company would “vigorously attack Microsoft” and its new Vista OS.
It must be said right away that Khovsepyan apparently did not lose his mind and does not at all declare war on Microsoft with breaking all relations. He praised Novell’s collaboration with MS and assured that they got a lot of useful information from this business partnership.
However, he called one goal of collaboration. The only way to survive in the software market and not be crushed by Microsoft's “ruthless power” is to go right behind her. The closer Novell specialists get to its customers, the more likely it is to lure them to Linux.
For example, thanks to the communications received through MS, Novell joined the leadership of the Peugeot auto concern, with whom it was possible to conclude an agreement on the installation and maintenance of thousands of Suse Linux distributions on their PCs and servers.
According to Ron, Vista took a very long time to develop, and five-year boiling in its own juice made its code very complicated and confusing. Free OSs do not have this drawback, and this can be turned into an important advantage in the competition for the consumer.
Describing the contract with Microsoft itself, Hovsepyan convinced reporters that this was not a necessary step. A confident understanding of all the implications and objectives of this document allowed us to abandon the Novell imposed agreements on mutual licensing of patented technologies, which were likely to harm the entire Open Source community as a whole.
According to officials, further cooperation between the two companies will continue without significant changes. But the sharp tongues of critics (see, for example, here ) are still haunted by the leadership of the recently respected, and now damned Novell. One thing is good: it seems to do everything to restore its former reputation.
It must be said right away that Khovsepyan apparently did not lose his mind and does not at all declare war on Microsoft with breaking all relations. He praised Novell’s collaboration with MS and assured that they got a lot of useful information from this business partnership.
However, he called one goal of collaboration. The only way to survive in the software market and not be crushed by Microsoft's “ruthless power” is to go right behind her. The closer Novell specialists get to its customers, the more likely it is to lure them to Linux.
For example, thanks to the communications received through MS, Novell joined the leadership of the Peugeot auto concern, with whom it was possible to conclude an agreement on the installation and maintenance of thousands of Suse Linux distributions on their PCs and servers.
According to Ron, Vista took a very long time to develop, and five-year boiling in its own juice made its code very complicated and confusing. Free OSs do not have this drawback, and this can be turned into an important advantage in the competition for the consumer.
Describing the contract with Microsoft itself, Hovsepyan convinced reporters that this was not a necessary step. A confident understanding of all the implications and objectives of this document allowed us to abandon the Novell imposed agreements on mutual licensing of patented technologies, which were likely to harm the entire Open Source community as a whole.
According to officials, further cooperation between the two companies will continue without significant changes. But the sharp tongues of critics (see, for example, here ) are still haunted by the leadership of the recently respected, and now damned Novell. One thing is good: it seems to do everything to restore its former reputation.