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Interoperability

2,500 square-foot lab and interoperability workspace opens in Cambridge

The best and brightest Microsoft and Novell engineers are now working shoulder to shoulder in a mixed-IT environment. Located in Cambridge, the 2,500 square-foot lab and workspace is home to a combined team of the best and brightest Microsoft and Novell engineers focused on making Windows Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise work better together. The lab team is currently working on bilateral virtualization to ensure interoperability between Microsoft and Novell virtualization technologies. Additional work will include standards-based systems management, identity federation and compatibility of office document formats.

Tom Hanrahan, director of Linux interoperability at Microsoft and Suzanne Forsberg, Novell senior manager for software engineering for the partnership, are in charge of the Lab, which houses more than 80 servers of varying architectures, as well as a storage area network. Microsoft and Novell are committed to  developing and testing our joint technologies by replicating  current IT environments and interoperability challenges facing enterprise customers today.
Published Oct 18 2007, 03:04 AM by admin
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ddbtek said:

Very respectfully,

I am very excited about the moreinterop.com site, but did not see a way to post comments.  I think you folks and the industry have lost all objectivity, allow me to explain.

End users use APPLICATIONS not Operating Systems.  They don't really care about the OS, they have work to do with their APPLICATIONS.

Why is there all this hype about porting documents between different operating systems?  Operating Systems do not use documents. End-users use documents they created with Applications that use Operating Systems.  So, instead, talk about applications.  Instead of making some converter that allows word documents to be opened yb some third-party-application on Linux, why not publish MSWord, MSExcel ON Linux.  Then Microsoft would get the revenue they want, we would get the stability and security that we want and the use of MS Applications.

It seems pretty obvious?

The reason Apple screwed up, and the reason IBM screwed up with OS/2 was because THEY WOULD NOT PUBLISH THEIR APPLICATIONS ON OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS.  Even though MS licenses their OS through back-end PC sales agreements, the end-user sees it as free.  End users don't mind paying for applications they want to use, they don't like paying for an OS (which is what IBM tried to do with OS/2).

I don't understand why Microsoft stopped doing it.  Their first GUI MSword was on the Mac.  I still have a copy.  Then when Windows became viable they ported it back.  Why did they not continue porting it as it evolved?

I don't mean to rant but somebody needs to focus on the real issues.

Thanks,

David

June 30, 2008 1:39 PM