Novell CEO: We'll 'fight' Vista (Updated)
Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant.
"We're excited by the muted reaction to Vista," Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, told the media at a breakfast meeting in Sydney today.
"We're going to attack [Microsoft] vigorously and go after their footprint as much as we can," Hovsepian said.
Vista was five years in the making, so the code behind it is very complex, according to Hovsepian. Whereas open source is more nimble and flexible. "And we have got to take advantage of that."
Despite its commitment to attack the market on its own terms, Hovsepian admits there are benefits to its alliance with the software giant.
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Three months into the sudden marketing and patent covenant agreement between Linux vendor Novell and Microsoft, the company's senior management are still justifying the merits of the deal and how it has so far been a blessing in disguise.
In Sydney for the company's leadership forum, CEO Ron Hovsepian and chief marketing officer John Dragoon both stood by Novell's decision to partner with Microsoft and said a lot of the initial reaction was miss informed.
"We did not sign a patent cross licensing agreement what we agreed to was not to sue any customers over patents," Hovsepian said, adding there has been confusion and rhetoric over the intellectual property aspect of the contract.
The deal protects customers but either company could still sue each other tomorrow, he said.
"Look at a company like Peugeot we are replacing Windows with 20,000 SUSE Linux desktops and 2500 servers," he said, adding market disillusion over Windows Vista will aid Novell's cause.
"We are going to attack Vista [and] we are excited about the strength of Linux compared to the competition. Look at Vista, it has been a five year development cycle. The beauty of the open source development process is the flexibility."
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