VMware attacks Microsoft licence changes

[macrohard]

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1880116749;fp;2;fpid;1

Gee.....

I cant imagine it wouldnt have anything to do with Linux.....

[TekMate]

"Chief executive Steve Ballmer saying at an analyst conference earlier this month that the company would "compete very aggressively with VMware"."

In other words we are giving ours away free until you go out of business!

[Bligh]

S.O.P. for micro soft.
Cheers

[DrHu]

The company is not filing any legal action against Microsoft
I don't know what they are afraid of..the tactic of suing a company that you think infringes your corporate rights, is nothing new in corporate America..
http://news.com.com/Symantec+sues+Microsoft+over+storage+tech/2100-1014_3-6074055.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/
"Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who expressed their 'anger' with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be, and 'reminded' Hitachi of the terms of its Windows license," according to the claim. "

It even helps to chill, is that not the favourite word of social analysts' view of some corporate or social (legal) actions, the competition and make them "fear changing horses in midstream " , ie switch from Vmware to something else ?
--that's what microsoft does, and gets away with...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/20/BUGO2DQIC21.DTL&type=business
http://certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=1085

Why not if they think they are right, they are already somewhat entrenched into the windows OS server markets + workstations for enterprise's...

Microsoft sop is of course a series problem for everyone else
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/31/jean_louis_gass_233_e/
One of the reasons for the failure of BeOS, Hacker identifies, was the inability to induce OEMs to provide true dual-boot machines. Be adopted a non-confrontational approach, seeking to provide a Windows alternative rather than a replacement. It later produced a version that boots from inside Windows, and it even offered OEMs BeOS for free. However Microsoft OEM contracts forbid a visible dual-boot option, and although OEMs were keen to differentiate themselves by offering Be's "Media OS" as an alternative, they risked breaching the OEM agreements.

When Hitachi took up the challenge, it was obliged to ship a machine that couldonly boot Windows. It couldn't provide one-click access to activate the sleeper OS that was also included on the machine, and couldn't provide similar easy access to install the BeOS bootloader. The result was laborious.

Now for the interesting bit, and listen up you folks who dream of Linux booting on machines from CompUSA.