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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Kai Hendry wrote:
So Novell are porting their tired networking protocols over to the Linux platform. But will they be "open"?
Not just that - they have already opened Ximian Connector, and are probably likely to open up other stuff. Novell should be able to do what Scaldera failed at - leveraging a large reseller, certified and services based company to sell open source solutions. I see them as taking on IBM, not with huge monololithic vertical integration like websphere and the like but more with UNIXy frameworks that fit in quickly and easily using open or closed/legacy.
They really should be using openldap and exim/postfix. Running proprietary applications(and protocols) on Linux isn't that exciting.
Novell ships some decent tools and does LDAP, etc pretty well. Considering that most of what you pay for the system will be support rather than licensing and that CCC, etc don't have any inhouse coders open source doesn't provide any benefits (other thank avoiding some vendor lock in) that they would be interested in. It is quite exciting because it provides yet more applications that you can run on Linux. As much as I would like to see everything open source, tomorrow, I and probably 99.9% of businesses want to be able to run anything they want on Linux. Being able to move your old Netware based system to Linux from DOS/Netware without losing settings, and migrating from exchange on windows to Linux and Groupwise in a matter of days is pretty exciting. For me what matters is that my skills become more useful as more applications run on a platform that I know and can earn a living from -- if those applications, tools and stuff become more open so that I can script or interface fairly easily from open source tools that is even better, and when applications move to an OSS platform that usually happens eventually even if the OSS hackers have to write it themselves. cheers, A. -- Aaron J Trevena - Perl Hacker, Kung Fu Geek, Internet Consultant AutoDia --- Automatic UML and HTML Specifications from Perl, C++ and Any Datasource with a Handler. http://droogs.org/autodia -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.