Red Hat, Microsoft Partner On Server Virtualization

I think I will scratch Red Hat off my list along with Novell now... Make my servers either CentOS or Ubuntu I guess...

That makes no sense softwarejanitor. The problem with the Novell deal is that Novell bought into the patent FUD. Red Hat does not. This is a simple deal of "you certify my software and I will certify yours".

It's worth noting that MS even made this deal, which is pretty funny given their increasing torrents of anti-Linux propaganda, and its allegedly miniscule market share, meaning it can be safely ignored. Ahem. Reminds me of the kid on the playground yelling "I'm ignoring you!" at the other kid, until someone yells at him to shut up already.

It may not be as bad as the Novell deal, but I'm not sure Red Hat can play with Microsoft and not get sucked into something bad. It seems like a trap. I'd rather avoid contact with MS as much as possible.

Where would the trap be? At least give us a possible scenario, however unlikely.

The reasoning is this: I dislike Micosoft, therefore any deal with them is teh suxors

From that short article we don't know what all the terms of the agreements are. I don't think it could possibly be that simple, there has to be a lot more to it than what they are saying.

@TC I think we can safely assume that Linux market share is considerably higher than anyone is saying given actions taken by Microsoft and the incredible increase in sales experienced by the world of goo when they ported to Linux.

@tracyanne: I haven't heared about that last bit. Is World of Goo selling well on Linux? Got link? Figures?

I think Ken will blog on it shortly.

I found an article about in in the newswire queue about it. It should be on the front page in ~8 hours.

softwarejanitor: *groan* Red Hat are Good Guys, let's not be knee-jerk reactionists.