Summary: Two companies that pay Microsoft for Linux remain close to Microsoft and fail to attract positive attention

EARLIER this week we wrote about Xandros and Samsung growing even closer to Microsoft. We now find that Xandros will attend Microsoft's TechEd Show, as further explained here:

BridgeWays, a division of Xandros, today announced a major expansion of its line of cross-platform System Center monitoring to Apache Tomcat, Oracle Enterprise, IBM DB2 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The new management packs come in response to customer demands to extend the BridgeWays single-console monitoring for the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to these popular enterprise applications on Windows, Linux, and Unix. These new BridgeWays arrivals join previously released management packs for Oracle Database, MySQL Database, Apache HTTP Server, JBoss Application Server, and VMware ESX/ESXi. The new BridgeWays management packs will be on display at the Microsoft TechEd show, Berlin, November 9-13.

Scalix (Xandros) markets itself as a GNU/Linux-based substitute for Exchange, but it says almost nothing about being a cash cow to Microsoft, via the signing of software patent deals. BridgeWays is an even more serious case of serving Microsoft.

We previously wrote about what Samsung's patent deal with Microsoft may mean to Android [1, 2]. This might not be much of an issue given that Samsung's phone appears like a failure, at least based on The Register which shows that it's a problem with Samsung's phone, not Android itself. From a new review of the Samsung Galaxy i7500:

Samsung's first Android phone is something of a disappointment. It's not outrageously bad, but there just seem to be too many missed opportunities and decision fumbles for it to really win us over. While other manufacturers are using Android's flexibility to give their devices a unique stamp, Samsung appears to have simply rushed out a me-too handset without taking the time to put much effort into it.

We'll be interested to see the next Android device that comes off the Samsung production line, but this one doesn't really deliver the goods just yet.

This is good news. Android in its own right is good, but it will not sell well when implemented by Samsung, which pays Microsoft for the use of Linux anyway. ⬆