Justin Steinman on Novell: never been better
Justin Steinman is Novell’s PR chief, spreading the SuSe Linux gospel and the benefits of the deal with Microsoft both at home in the US and abroad. On his current visit to Australia, I got the chance to ask him questions – some easy, some tough. Novell doubters and haters beware: Steinman says Novell has never had it so good, and it’s only getting better!
This interview will be a bit of a hybrid, as it will feature some simple questions from me, who isn’t a Linux user (at least, not yet, anyway), but as I’ve done some research online and have also asked my Linux loving colleagues for some questions, there’ll be some hard hitting questions there too. So… let’s go.
Justin, for all those people who aren’t Linux users/fanatics and have only heard about the whole thing from the sidelines, what does the Novell / Microsoft deal represent, what does it mean?
It means interoperability between Windows and SuSe Linux. You take one step back from that – Novel and MS both believe in 5 years that there will be two dominant operating systems in the enterprise – Windows and Linux – and as much as Novell wants to see 100% data centre – that’s not going to happen. How do I differentiate from Red Hat? We work with Windows.
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Notice the fact that his reply to us is void. There's no proper answer to address the patents issue at hand. We rebutted this in BoycottNovell, if anyone is interested.