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VIRTUALISATION If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it?
VIRTUALISATION If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it? | If Moonlight is so hot, why isn't Novell using it? |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Wednesday, 19 August 2009 | |
  
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When it comes to the mixed-source company , Novell, that does not seem to be the case. On Monday, Novell announced the release of the beta of Moonlight 2.0, another of its attempts to play catch-up with Microsoft's technologies, in this case something called Silverlight. Silverlight is Microsoft's bid to grab a share of the market dominated by Adobe's Flash. But it looks like Moonlight is not ready for production use yet. Else how come Novell is using Adobe's Flash on its own website? You can see the big banner - homebanner_holder.swf - there in all its glory. One of the reasons why Moonlight has not been put into production uses may be the fact that the Moonlight covenant provided by Microsoft - which says it will not sue downstream recipinets of Novell and its subsidiaries - also includes a clause that it can be withdrawn at any time. Imagine how it would look if that happened - a company would be caught in a pickle for using its own technology, one which it publicises at every possible opportunity. Novell's lack of trust in its own products seems to extend to its Netware and Linux products to some extent as well. According to Netcraft, the Novell websites run a mix of Windows Server 2003, CentOS, Debian GNU/Linux, Netware, SUSE and Solaris. |
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