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While The Microsoft-Novell agreement continues to reverberate throughout the software industry, it’s really time for me to change the focus. As you may have noted, this newsletter will be ending in just a few short weeks. In fact, after this edition, there are only six left until we say adieu, sayonara, aloha, auf weidersehen. What I’d like to do with those six issues is to review the past 20 years of NetWare, the past 10 years of this newsletter and the future of our favorite operating system.
And there is a future. Just last week, the Reigate and Banstead Borough Council in the U.K. advertised for “prospective suppliers to tender for the supply, installation, migration & maintenance of Novell NetWare SAN equipment.” That’s right, they are still installing NetWare!
Before heading down that path, there’s a couple more things to say about the deal of the century – Microsoft-Novell.
Waltham is claiming that under the agreement they do not admit that Microsoft intellectual property is included in the SUSE Linux distribution. Microsoft agrees that Novell didn’t admit this while still claiming that Linux violates its patents. So why did Novell say, in the agreement, “Novell will also make running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenue from open source products”? If Novell claims no infringement, what “royalty” are they talking about?
Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill.
Kearns is the author of two Network World Newsletters: Windows Networking Strategies, and Identity Management. Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these respective addresses: windows@vquill.com, identity@vquill.com .
Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail.
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