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Novell Accused of Lying About Red Hat Products (Again)

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Summary: Novell manager misinforms the public about Red Hat's products; Microsoft employee spreads the "zealot" label

JAN Wildeboer, writing in his personal blog (he is a Red Hat employee, but his blog is personal), says that Novell distorts the facts:

IBMs cloud is powered by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to run virtual machines. That’s the fact.

So why does Michael Applebaum, Senior Solutions Manager at SuSE say this:
So where does open source software (OSS) fit in? For one thing, it’s ideally positioned to provide the infrastructure for public and private cloud environments. This is a widely accepted view today, and we see it taking shape with (for example) our announcement that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is powering IBM’s new development and test cloud.
Mr. Applebaum, for the sake of fairness, please do correct your statement. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server is a fully accepted guest in the IBM cloud, but the cloud is powered by KVM via Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. I hope we can agree here.


This wouldn't be the first time that Novell spreads misinformation about Red Hat [1, 2] and about its own achievements. Novell deserves to be shamed for it. It's true that Jan is biased (being a Red Hat employee), but he does not hide his affiliation or troll Novell blogs. On the other hand, a link that we posted over an hour ago shows Jim Zemlin (head of the Linux Foundation) writing about SaaS. There is only one comment on his post and it opens with "(Disclaimer: I work at MSFT, but this post is my own, and I'm a pragmatist, not a zealot.)"

"Not a zealot," eh? Microsoft continues to imply that those outside Microsoft are "zealots" [1, 2]. Spot the hypocrisy. This led to a bit of a discussion earlier on in our IRC channel.

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