{"id":549,"date":"2007-05-07T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/dell-collaborates-with-microsoftnovell-2007-is-definitely-the-year-of-desktop-linux"},"modified":"2007-05-07T21:15:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:15:34","slug":"dell-collaborates-with-microsoftnovell-2007-is-definitely-the-year-of-desktop-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/dell-collaborates-with-microsoftnovell-2007-is-definitely-the-year-of-desktop-linux","title":{"rendered":"Dell collaborates with Microsoft\/Novell &#8211; 2007 is definitely the year of desktop Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Dell was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/01\/ubuntu-linux-pre-loaded-on-dells\">getting in bed<\/a> with Ubuntu, this week there&#8217;s a Microsoft\/Novell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/news\/press\/dell-joins-microsoft-and-novell-collaboration\/\">deal<\/a>. The terms are <i>interesting<\/i>: Dell purchasing SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) certificates from Microsoft. Then, there&#8217;s the existing Dell Linux customer base &#8211; this deal is meant to market and offer services to migrate them to SLES!<\/p>\n<p>Two platforms of the future &#8211; Microsoft Windows and Linux. These are also the two platforms for today. Dell will focus on interoperability workshops, migration proof of concepts, and provide migration services. I wonder how much of these will hit Dell or Novell partners, offering similar services. Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/direct2dell.com\/one2one\/archive\/2007\/05\/07\/14120.aspx\">video-blog<\/a> on Dell&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Questions that remain to be answered, and will be interesting to see unfold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where does this leave Red Hat? Is something interesting going to be announced at the Red Hat Summit happening May 9-11?<\/li>\n<li>HP is a big supporter of Linux, with Debian. Where is the synergy with them to move the Ubuntu or even the Novell way?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A lot of folk have predicted many years in the past were the year of desktop Linux adoption. I think 2007 is the year of desktop Linux adoption. More importantly, I think I&#8217;m right.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/dell\" rel=\"tag\">dell<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/novell\" rel=\"tag\">novell<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sles\" rel=\"tag\">sles<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pre-loaded\" rel=\"tag\">pre-loaded<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/migration\" rel=\"tag\">migration<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/windows\" rel=\"tag\">windows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Dell was getting in bed with Ubuntu, this week there&#8217;s a Microsoft\/Novell deal. The terms are interesting: Dell purchasing SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) certificates from Microsoft. Then, there&#8217;s the existing Dell Linux customer base &#8211; this deal is meant to market and offer services to migrate them to SLES! Two platforms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-8R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}