Winners and losers in the New Linux World
Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are.
So, what does it all mean? Rather than make a snap judgment I decided to sit, wait and watch before trying to make sense of it all. Now, I'm ready to give you my two-cents on who are the winners and losers in this post-deal Linux world.
First, here are the winners. Commercial Linux has taken one giant step forward. Microsoft, Microsoft of all companies, is finally admitting that Linux is good for something. Oracle, by jumping into the Linux distribution business, has also given Linux an enormous endorsement.
It's no longer Linux supporters who are saying that Linux should be taken seriously in business, now everyone is saying that Linux is a real enterprise-worthy operating system.
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Perhaps the real shock is not so much the announcements as the surprise so many have in reference to the recent announcements. Here in a short span of time we have Microsoft and Novell getting flirtingly close, and Oracle giving a one-two to RedHat, while we get SUN's announcement about JAVA, making some squeamish and others wagging their tails.
What in the world is happening to our world?
It's reasonable to view these announcements as substantive, if for nothing else than their impact on the future of the corporate landscape.
Ironically, even in the context of Microsoft's announcement regarding Novell (or was that Novell's announcement regarding Microsoft), the only thing we can be certain is that the future landscape is now more uncertain. That's about it.
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Microsoft and novell made big IT news on Nov. 2 by announcing a historic burying of the hatchet, the likes of which we haven't seen since Sun and Microsoft promised to work together on big interoperability stuff.
The Sun-Micro-soft agreement was two years ago, and I'm not sure what, if anything, came out of it. If I missed something major, please let me know.
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