Linked by David Adams on Tue 30th Nov 2004 16:11 UTC
Have you partaken in the conspiracy theories about Microsoft's recent investment in Vintela, a Unix-Windows integration software company? Vintela's association with SCO, and Microsoft's apparent interest in keeping SCO's legal battle against IBM afloat in order to undermine Linux, certainly provide plenty of kindling to keep the home fires burning at conspiracy central. But let's try to get the story straight first. OSNews interviewed Vintela President Dave Wilson.
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After reading this interview Microsoft's intentions with Vintela and their products became actually quite clear to me.
Microsoft can charge additional license fees for *nix and macosx clients, while at the same time keeping tight control over their proprietary management tools, authentication services and their related protocols, adding another layer of lock-in.
I don't think Vintela has evil intentions. There is definately a need for such products. I work at a large corperation myself and we are struggling with the same problems that Vintela's customers do.
I must also admit that I would be more enthousiastic to a different approach with a (preferably open) non-microsoft product holding all the strings. I guess Novell/IBM/HP and the like will solve that issue if they haven't already.