Comment Mutual Benefit (Score 1) 380
Overstated? Not at all. Can Novell make it happen? The sooner the better.
This announcment by Jack Messman shows the growing acceptance and realization of Linux and OpenSource as well as Novell's need for a substantial direction change to recapture marketshare perhaps even just to survive.
To appreciate this statement from Novell, it helps obviously to have a background in both Novell and Linux. Even more importantly, a background in Microsoft. I've had to install and support Windows 3.51 - 2000 servers, VMS, Novell, Linux, and various Unix flavors. Does anyone remember LANtastic and the "Five Star" certification? Yup, did that to.
These days, it is difficult to convince most CIOs to consider replacing Microsoft with Linux for core services. Although some CIOs have seen the light, most still are happy spending corporate dollars on MS licenses so they can get to the golf course early instead of investing a little of their time disussing ways to improve IT services and reducing their bloated budgets.
At first glance, this announcement was very interesting. My first thought was, "Wow! Linux coupled with a Netware File System and NDS (Ok,Ok edirectory)" Augmenting a Linux file system with Novell attributes and ACLs and adding edirectory services would make Linux much more robust. CIOs will have to consider something other than Micosoft now... right...? Ok, unlikely. I can imagine SysAdmins explaining all of the performance and cost benefits to their CIOs only to be asked by the CIO afterwards "Will this Novell edirectory thing allow me to use my Outlook Calendar?".
I think this is a great decision by Novell. Migrating to Linux allows Novell to build opensource alliances while adding to the features of Linux. Although Linux and opensource continue to gain market acceptance on their own, announcements like this only accelerate that acceptance.
The sooner that more vendors line up with Linux the sooner I'll have time to do other things besides chasing Windows event log failures. Does anyone know how to fix a NTDS KCC event 1265?
Robert
This announcment by Jack Messman shows the growing acceptance and realization of Linux and OpenSource as well as Novell's need for a substantial direction change to recapture marketshare perhaps even just to survive.
To appreciate this statement from Novell, it helps obviously to have a background in both Novell and Linux. Even more importantly, a background in Microsoft. I've had to install and support Windows 3.51 - 2000 servers, VMS, Novell, Linux, and various Unix flavors. Does anyone remember LANtastic and the "Five Star" certification? Yup, did that to.
These days, it is difficult to convince most CIOs to consider replacing Microsoft with Linux for core services. Although some CIOs have seen the light, most still are happy spending corporate dollars on MS licenses so they can get to the golf course early instead of investing a little of their time disussing ways to improve IT services and reducing their bloated budgets.
At first glance, this announcement was very interesting. My first thought was, "Wow! Linux coupled with a Netware File System and NDS (Ok,Ok edirectory)" Augmenting a Linux file system with Novell attributes and ACLs and adding edirectory services would make Linux much more robust. CIOs will have to consider something other than Micosoft now... right...? Ok, unlikely. I can imagine SysAdmins explaining all of the performance and cost benefits to their CIOs only to be asked by the CIO afterwards "Will this Novell edirectory thing allow me to use my Outlook Calendar?".
I think this is a great decision by Novell. Migrating to Linux allows Novell to build opensource alliances while adding to the features of Linux. Although Linux and opensource continue to gain market acceptance on their own, announcements like this only accelerate that acceptance.
The sooner that more vendors line up with Linux the sooner I'll have time to do other things besides chasing Windows event log failures. Does anyone know how to fix a NTDS KCC event 1265?
Robert
