Microsoft: Pact with Novell is just swell (really it is)
Date: Sunday, December 24 2006 @ 16:27:32 EST
Topic: Microsoft Related
The Microsoft-Novell Linux pact is going swimmingly. And you thought it was fluff. Just ask Microsoft and Novell how things are going.
Those two crazy kids have three big companies–Deutsche Bank, Credit
Suisse and AIG Technologies, a part of insurer AIG–taking advantage of
the interoperability between Microsoft and Novell's SUSE Linux
Enterprise.
In a press release today, the two parties were glowing:
Under three separate customer agreements, Microsoft
will deliver to each company SUSE Linux Enterprise subscription
certificates, allowing these customers to take advantage of the
Microsoft and Novell agreement. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and AIG
Technologies, which is a member company of American International Group
Inc., highlighted the benefits of interoperability, the patent
cooperation agreement and the road map for bidirectional virtualization
solutions as the deciding factors in their choice.
Wow. That's great. OK maybe I'm a bit cynical and should stop bashing
this Microsoft-Novell love affair. BUT the two sides–especially
Microsoft–sure seem to be working hard to make this partnership look
good.
Now to be sure, mixed source environments are the future–and the
three CIOs in Microsoft's press release agree–but time will be ultimate
measure of whether the Novell-Microsoft pact has legs.
How exactly are CIOs using the technologies of Novell and Microsoft?
How has this interoperability helped matters? What's the return? At
this juncture, three financial services titans–and the financial
services industry typically leads in IT–have a Linux subscription
certificate from Microsoft. Without some IT meat around those
certificates it's a little early to declare the Microsoft and Novell
deal a success.
Post script: While folks may be skeptical about Microsoft and
Novell's partnership, they do seem to be saying a little more than
Oracle about its Red Hat support efforts. On Oracle's earnings conference call, president Charles Phillips only said the following on Red Hat support:
"Just an update on a couple of other announcements you
might be interested in. Obviously we made a big announcement at Open
World around Unbreakable Linux, our support offering. In the first 30
days, we had 9,000 downloads of Unbreakable Linux from our website and
hundreds of customers connecting their servers to our network."
Gee Chuck, thanks for the color.
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