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April 28, 2005
Novell will own open source (says them)
Have been in NYC for last two days for the RRE annual meeting. At cocktails I had a chat with Jack Messman, CEO of NOVELL. Two worthwhile comments:
1. Most of his staff would say that Google is their #1 competitor, although he would prefer Microsoft. Jack believes Google could whip up an OS anytime they wanted. I tend to disagree, but interesting perspective.
2. Open source stack support companies like Spikesource (KP funded) and SourceLabs (Ignition funded) will have a tough time getting to market (I agree) because Novell (through Suse) and others (Redhat) will just implement partner programs and the need will be gone. Jack argues Vendor consolidation around trusted brands. Now we can argue about if Novell makes that cut, but I would tend to agree in principle.
I guess we have some work to do.
Posted by Martin at April 28, 2005 4:22 AM
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