Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 19th Sep 2008 21:53 UTC
Microsoft and Novell have made good on their 2006 interoperability pact. Microsoft and Novell jointly announced that Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise has been optimized to run as an "enlightened" guest on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor platform. Windows Server 2008 customers have been able to run as a virtualized guest on SUSE since last June, when SUSE became the first member of Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program, which Novell has helped to fine-tune. Now SUSE is optimized to run on Microsoft's Hyper-V as well.
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Member since:2005-07-24
Welcome to the real world. You'll find it quite different from the world you dreamed of in your youth or learned about in college.
Is that truth? Or is it a cop out? You know, "what everyone does". In my 45 years, I've noticed that most people do end up choosing your fictitious "real world". And many seem happy enough living in that illusion.
It doesn't get much more "real world", though, than pleasing your stockholders and customers. And Novell's strategy hasn't done too well on that metric, now, has it? Meanwhile Red Hat, presumably not living in your "real world", and unwilling to compromise their principles, is still solidly in the #1 Linux vendor spot, and still holds an insanely high customer loyalty rating. Pretty impressive for a bunch of dreamers who don't live in "the real world".
Maybe there are good examples of how compromising ones principles can get one ahead. But this is clearly not one of them.
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Edited 2008-09-20 22:17 UTC
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Member since:2005-12-09
It's not easy, it's not fun and it's not got for your soul or karma and you certainly cannot keep you smug moral superiority, but often it's the pragmatically correct thing to do. There are times when you simply have to chose between taking the moral high ground and getting things done.
But,you do get to keep your smug pragmatist's superiority, have no fun, take a moral dive and contribute to the status quo. So it's win/win.
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2005-07-06
Welcome to the real world. You'll find it quite different from the world you dreamed of in your youth or learned about in college.
Sometimes sitting down with your enemy is the right choice for moving things forward. Sometimes you have to get dirty and play the game rather than shout from the sidelines. Sometimes you have to take one step back before you can take two steps forwards.
It's not easy, it's not fun and it's not got for your soul or karma and you certainly cannot keep you smug moral superiority, but often it's the pragmatically correct thing to do. There are times when you simply have to chose between taking the moral high ground and getting things done.