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Red Hat Formally Complains About Novell's Masquerading



Summary: Novell is trying to lock Red Hat out and away from its very own customers, formal letters of complaint dispatched by Red Hat

Former Novell employee Matt Asay writes about Novell's latest scandal, which had Red Hat formally respond with letters of complaint (see image).

Novell slapped for impersonating Red Hat



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As its white papers allege, Novell thinks it can offer high-quality support for SUSE Linux, the Linux distribution it owns and ships, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the Linux distribution that it...doesn't. The company has been offering a migration plan from RHEL to SUSE since at least November 2008, but it recently raised the ire of Red Hat in Portugal in its marketing approach.


The Var Guy has just published "Red Hat Counters Oracle, Novell Linux Support Claims" -- a post that addresses some related points.

At first glance, Red Hat’s biggest rival is Microsoft. But take a closer look and Red Hat seems to be equally concerned about two other fierce rivals. They are (1) Free Linux and (2) so-called low-cost Linux support offerings from Novell and Oracle.


Novell does not properly compete against Windows. It competes against UNIX and Red Hat for the most part. We will provide some more evidence of this later on.

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