[Leaplist] microsoft / novell -- Can I get a STFU?

[William Warren]

on page 3 the article mentions:

"What has it always stood to gain, in every deal Microsoft has ever 
made? When Windows NT was first introduced to the enterprise, analysts 
predicted some form of the new operating system would inevitably 
succeed, not because it was good, and not because it was functional, but 
because at some level, customers needed to run Microsoft Office. For 
that, they needed Windows. So even if Microsoft were to lose money 
selling Windows, they concluded, Microsoft could eventually succeed, 
because Windows is the platform for Office.

But that's not necessarily true any more. Yesterday, Novell CTO Jeff 
Jaffe threw out a word to the crowd without actually defining it: 
para-virtualization. Essentially, this refers to the capability for an 
application running on an operating system that is itself being hosted 
virtually by another operating system, to know who its own virtual host 
is. So a Windows app running on Linux would know it's on Linux."

Obviously willfully ignorant of the fact we don't need windows to run 
office on linux.  Crossover is one that comes to mind.  We also have 
openoffice which i have not been able to detect nay differences between 
what OO makes and what Word makes.  The interface may be slighty 
different but the results aren't.



Damien McKenna wrote:
> The BS continueth:
> http://www.betanews.com/article/What_Microsoft_Novell_Means_Going_Forward/11
> 62593256
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