Unbending the Truth
As a followup to Microsoft’s FUD campain against Linux, Novell opened a website to turn down all of Microsoft’s arguments: Unbending the Truth: Things Microsoft Hopes You Won’t Notice. The website is definetly part of Novell’s marketting campain for SuSE Linux enterprise servers. While generally promoting Linux and Open Source, many references are made to the recently purchased distribution.
Microsoft has been very active fighting to prove the Windows 2003 Server TCO is lower than administrating a Linux system. They financed multiple studies to support their arguments. It’s clear that Linux means either loss of market share or price reduction for them.
Novell recently made Linux a central part of it’s solutions and they are trying to impose themselves in the community as defenders of Open Source. In a public anouncement, Novell indicated that they could use their own patents against those threatening Linux with software patents. They also guarentee protection against lawsuits for their clients (even if everyone knows SCO’s lawsuit won’t win). Tux now has two giants to watch his back.