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Novell: 'The Standalone OS is Dead'

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The future of the standalone operating system is not particularly bright. At least, that's according to Nat Friedman, chief technology and strategy officer for open source at Novell. "The big story here is Linux versus Windows," he said. "I do not believe that Microsoft has shown the interest, time and the will to allow an ISV to embed their operating system and intermediate between Microsoft and the customer."

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Comments (3)

garymax ·
Did you ever notice that the Linux vendors who make these kinds of predictions are the ones that stand to profit the most from the scenario?

Sander_Marechal ·
It's a fairytale anyway. I can see appliance-like server OS images becoming popular in small businesses. Point&click install and a no-brainer to maintain. But as soon as you start to grow you can profit a lot from doing it yourself.

And really, how much work is it? Modern package management and tools like Debian's tasksel make it dead easy to install a LAMP server, file server, mail server or many other kinds of servers. Two clicks (or one CLI command) to turn a default box into a basic server and after that you can tweak at your hearts content.
tuxchick ·
haha garymax, just like the secuarity vendors who release regular scary "Linux can get viruses too!" stories. Ooo I am so scared.

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