[Cialug] MSFT to partner with Novell

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've seen a lot of speculation  about the MS/Novell thing. I've seen a
lot of very passionate statements regarding the issue. Alot of the
reactions I've seen remind me a lot of those I saw/felt when Redhat
split into Fedora and Redhat Enterprise.

>From a business standpoint, sometimes the Linux related potential
uncertainity creates a feeling similiar to constipation. Generally
speaking, major surgery is not required to cure that problem.

I try and remind myself that the only constant in the technology world
is change. When the Fedora/Enterprise thing happened, I adapted and
changed. I ended up being better for it.  If the situation arises again,
I'll do the same...

Just my 2cents on the whole thing...


:) Dave





On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:35, Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> Hmmm, Yast (or apt-get) on windows ....
> 
> Ruby's Gem package installer works on Windows, and what's cool about it
> is:
> 1) when a Gem is pure Ruby code, it can install the Gem on your machine
> without thinking about platform ('cuz you've got a Ruby VM already),
> 2) when a Gem is binary, the Gem installer checks your OS vs the
> repository and either gives you choices of Gems compiled for your OS or
> fails out letting you know there's no Gem compiled and packaged for your
> platform.
> 
> Perl's CPAN (I get that right?) is similar, no?  And java is headed that
> way.
> 
> Problem with Yast on Windows is most of the packages are binary
> compiles, which means they would need repackaging for Windows, which is
> not a small effort.  But it's an idea I'd welcome.
> 
> Shame you can't 'apt-get upgrade windows' and have it all just work.
> Though if it did, Microsoft would have a hard time selling their system
> management tools.
> 
> =Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of Josh More
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:35 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] MSFT to partner with Novell
> 
> [edited]
> 
> The "runs on windows" is not the issue, the issue is ease of
> installation and graphical configuration.  I can see this agreement
> making Yast a management tool on Windows as well as making installing
> systems like you mention as easy as "yum install postgres"
> 
> [/edited]
> 
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