Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Earlier this week, Microsoft struck an agreement with Suse Linux distributor Novell which runs until 2012.The agreement revealed yesterday, seemed to indicate that Microsoft would be tied exclusively to Novell for its Linux requirements. Just a few hours ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer cast doubt on that assumption.
In an interview with Indian financial
newspaper the Economic Times, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a
statement that may well have made more than a few market watchers sit
up and wonder if they had heard right. "We will love to put that kind
of agreement in place with anyone who distributes Linux software, Red
Hat, whoever else," Steve Ballmer was reported as saying.
It may be just that I was incorrectly under the impression from the
publicly disclosed agreement between Microsoft and Novell that there is
a three-year exclusive arrangement between Novell and Microsoft. Or
maybe Mr Baller was just musing about what Microsoft would like to do
once its agreement runs its term with Novell.
However, one wonders how talk from Microsoft's CEO about wanting to do
similar Linux deals with Red Hat would sit with the folks at the Novell
command center in Massachusetts, when the ink has barely dried on the
paper they jointly signed.
Given the stormy relationship between Novell and Microsoft in the past
and Mr Ballmer's recent statement, one wonders how the new "alliance"
will pan out over the next three years.
David Frost
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