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Microsoft and Novell partner up
Thursday November 02, 2006 (11:30 PM GMT)
Microsoft and Novell announced the culmination of six months of secret negotiations today
in a joint webcast from San Francisco, led by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Novell CEO
Ron Hovsepian. The firms will collaborate in work in three technical areas while continuing to
compete against each other for market share.
Ballmer spoke first, saying the companies were announcing "a set of agreements that will really
help to bridge the divide between open source and proprietary software." Ballmer says that Microsoft
and Novell will collaborate in three major areas: virtualization, management, and document compatibility.
The key ingredient to making this partnership work is the bridge -- a legal framework -- between the
open source and the proprietary software camps. That bridge seems to be constructed primarily by a
covenant which protects Novell from patent attacks, but details were scarce.
Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, says that Microsoft will not assert its patents against
individual, non-commercial, open source developers. They also promised not to assert them against
professional developers developing code for Novell.
In addition to its collaboration efforts, Microsoft is slated to assist Novell in the marketing and
distribution of SUSE Linux.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds was surprised by the news. "I literally don't know anything about anything.
I've seen some of the early Reuters stories about the [Wall Street Journal] article, but I don't know any
more than you do, and probably a lot less."
However, Torvalds says he's willing to work with Microsoft too. "If they start sending me patches, I'll
take them as long as they have sign-offs."
Novell has a FAQ addressing likely questions on its Web site
The end of fiber-optic?
Such a development could obviate the billions of dollars Verizon is spending on a new fiber-optic network. It
also poses a threat to cable companies, which may not be able to upgrade their hybrid coax networks to gigabit
speeds as cheaply as phone companies could with DSM. AT&T's move to slow down its fiber rollout looks prescient
in light of the potential DSM threat.
See links for additional information:
http://gigaom.com/2006/10/16/gigabit-dsl-yes-it-will-happen/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060425-6669.html
Google's $1.65 billion agreement to acquire YouTube Monday is the latest, splashiest and most expensive of deals involving companies in the nascent online video business.
Industry experts say that Google's rivals, both traditional media companies and Internet firms like Yahoo!, need to reevaluate their online video strategies now that the search engine kingpin and online video leader have joined forces.
Catch the whole story at: http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/10/technology/googleyoutube_reaction/index.htm?cnn=yes
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REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 5, 2006 — Following the release Friday of Microsoft ® Windows
Vista™ Release Candidate 1 (RC1), Microsoft Corp. announced plans to make RC1 available
for broad customer and partner testing. With this milestone, Microsoft is also communicating
the U.S. estimated retail pricing* for all Windows Vista editions. The announcements signal a
major step for the technology industry toward the final availability of Windows Vista, currently
targeted for volume license customers in November 2006 and general availability in
January 2007.