Comments on: Wal-Mart eyes Microsoft for Web build-out

Wal-Mart CTO Nancy Stewart says Microsoft's Novell partnership important to long-term plans.

[Sniche]

Should bring down the might of WAL-MART

Along with the Ford Motor Company
They should experience many CRASHES!

[bicparker]

Shouldn't the title say Novell and Microsoft?

The article specifically says that both companies are doing this,
not just MS. And from what the article continues to say, it
appears that Linux has been and will continue to be the server
side of their Web sites (I'm assuming Apache, which would make
sense).

After I read the article, I thought the title was pretty misleading
(in other words.. Wrong) and a major slight to Novell, since it
would seem that is the whole reason MS would be involved in
this decision in the first place (because of the their joint
licensing agreement).

[AlexGra]

Wal-Mart and the Novell-Microsoft Deal

We look for the negative in a story like this, but maybe it's an example of the customer getting the best of both worlds.

[hutchnate]

Walmart Cowards

Walmart should convert everything over to Red Hat. Or maybe buy MS. M$ is all smoke and mirrors. How can M$ sue over patents when they stole everyone elses. Look at Vista a ms knock off of OS X. groklaw.com ms litigation.

[AUTigerFan]

Can anyone read?

This is like the scene in White Men Can Jump where they argue over "you can listen to Jimmy but you can't hear Jimmy".

Wal-Mart has been and continues to be a multi-year customer of Microsoft. They have, up to this point, only used Linux in a limited manner but will expand that. Shockingly, as in most enterprises, its a mixed environment and will continue to be.

As for the completely dead and beaten horse of "Microsoft steals everything", get a clue. They all steal from each other and regularly. Microsoft's MTS was so heavily copied, the offending developers didn't even bother to change many of the method and variable names. Give it a rest already.

[AUTigerFan]

Oh and another thing...

since both are involved, they are listed alphabetically for purposes of titling. While everyone whines and complains, I don't see anyone raising the "poor Red Hat" banner and charging to their defense. Why not bash both Microsoft and Novell for causing them to lose business? Meanies...

[Captain-Atari]

Now lets get on the shelf

Chalk one up for Novell. Sometimes all it takes is to get your foot in the door.
I would like to see Novell and some of their so-called partners like HP and IBM get Some PC's on the shelves @ Walmart with Suse pre-installed. That would be real progress for the Linux Desktop Movement.

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