Novell CEO Gives Behind the Scenes Account of Microsoft Deal

raffe writes "Here is a Q&A with Ron Hovsepian CEO of Novell. He describes 'a love-hate thing' between the two companies." From the article: "This past May, I picked up the phone and called Kevin Turner, the COO at Microsoft. I knew Kevin when he was the CIO at Wal-Mart. I said, "Kevin, I'd like to have a conversation about what the customer needs. If you could put back on your old hat as a customer, if I came in and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and this Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about virtualization on Windows, what would you say to us?""

To quote I Love Lucy

[robyannetta]

"Lucy, you got some 'xplaining to do!"

...what would you say to us?

[gr8whitesavage]

itsatrap

A man walks into a bar

[Anonymous Coward]

and tries to sell virtualized Linux on a Win server and right after him another man walkes into the bar and tries to sell virtualized Windows on a Linux server. The barkeeper says "Get the f*ck outta here, both of you!".

Bad joke, eh? At least now you get the deeper meaning of the Novell/Microsoft deal.

Re:To quote I Love Lucy

[QuantumG]

oh, we're doing accents now?

Re:www.vmware.com

[QMO]

... they never need a reboot unless an update requires one, hardware is added or some system application software is installed...

So, they never need a reboot unless they need one?