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Posted in Deception, Marketing, Novell, Servers at 3:27 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Novell® Cloud Manager is just another example of Novell lock-in pretending to be the opposite of lock-in
In a new press release (see one mirror among many) Novell announces proprietary software which is intended to manage Fog Computing. CRN’s headline says that “Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager” and there is a lot more coverage such as:
=> ↺ press release | ↺ mirror | ↺ proprietary software | ↺ “Novell Promises No More Private Cloud Lock-In With Cloud Manager”
Novell Releases Cloud ManagerNovell Aims to Manage Private CloudsNovell Cloud Manager Offers On-Demand Workload ProvisioningNovell Looks to Solve Private Cloud Vendor Lock-inNovell Unveils Cloud ManagerNovell Unveils Cloud ManagerNovell Unveils Cloud Manager – Analyst BlogNovell joins crowded cloud platform marketOpen Clouds: Tilting at Windmills?Novell introduces Cloud ManagerNovell launches cloud management for private cloudNovell launches cloud management for private cloudNovell intros cloud management platformNovell punts cloud control tool
Will the clouds save Novell in a way that Linux has not yet done? The company certainly hopes so. Today, the company is kicking out its Cloud Manager tool, which has been under development for more than a year.
How is reliance on proprietary software from a company which is allegedly being sold [1, 2] actually a reducer of lock-in? As we explained in the past, calling Fog Computing “private” under any situation is deceiving at best. Microsoft does that too. █
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