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● 01.05.07

●● Microvell Acquisition of XenSource Confirmed by Ray Ozzie?

Posted in Antitrust, Microsoft, Novell, Virtualisation, Xen at 2:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Yesterday we mentioned Matt Asay’s speculation about an upcoming Novell acquition. The worst case scenario, as explained before, is that where Novell scoops Xen and then punishes other GNU/Linux distributors. Such a move would hurt Linux tremendously, according to a humble analysis.

=> ↺ we mentioned Matt Asay’s speculation

Although it is hard to verify the identity of commenters, Ray Ozzie has just posted a comment which confirms this.

=> ↺ posted a comment

Novell will buy Xensoure (sic).

They will release a new ZENworks Q1 for application virtualization on Windows and Suse. Novell also has the only reliable Identity Management, and Directory that scales the Enterprise. No one else comes close IBM, Sun, Oracle and certainly not Red Hat. Suse is now the only “sanctioned” Linux for the Enterprise due to the agreement and work with Microsoft.

If this comment (which was followed by another from a Microsoft MVP who ‘diggs’ for Microsoft at Digg.com) is not authentic, then we apologise for the confusion. However, it cannot be ignored. I have seen Ozzie commenting in blogs before (e.g. Microsoft-Watch), so I’m inclined to suspect it’s a genuine and authentic statement.

If true, Novell may have just moved closer to betraying the community, again. As David Mohring told BoyCottNovell yesterday:

=> ↺ David Mohring told BoyCottNovell yesterday

Also consider that if Microsoft purchased XenSource directly then VMWare and the other virtualization vendors would rightly scream “Antitrust”, since Microsoft would be building versions of Vista/WindowsServer targeted to work with Xen’s Paravirtualization mode. Maybe such Antitrust issues could be avoided by Novell purchasing XenSource ( using funds provided by Microsoft in November ) and Microsoft and Novell working on getting Microsoft’s OSs and Xen together ( under the existing Novell Microsoft November agreement ).

Addendum: More background at LinuxWatch

=> ↺ More background at LinuxWatch

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