Red hat to be more compatible with Windows
By Justin Silverton
In a recent article:
“In the latest example of a Linux distributor looking to get closer to Microsoft, Red Hat said Tuesday that it has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance, a group of tech companies working to make their products more interoperable with those produced in Redmond.
Red Hat says most of its work within the group will focus on making its middleware more compatible with Microsoft’s and will build on efforts previously undertaken by its JBoss division. The goal, Red Hat says, is to ensure that its products can perform well in environments in which Windows also plays a large role. Shaun Connolly, Red Hat’s VP for product management, says the company is looking to make its user experience “transparent and seamless in spite of heterogeneous environments.
Red Hat’s announcement came a day after Microsoft and Novell outlined a roadmap for products designed to work in either Windows or Linux environments. The companies said they will focus their joint efforts on building more efficient, cost-effective products for facilitating server virtualization, Web services implementations, directory and identity interoperability, and document format compatibility”
Will linux finally have compatiblity with Microsoft windows? Given the history of Microsoft, I don’t think we are going to see a completly open .doc standard anytime soon.
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The real question is: will MS be compatible to the rest of the world?
“The real question is: will MS be compatible to the rest of the world?”
The problem is that microsoft has over a 60% marketshare compared to linux (on the desktop at least). This means that linux will have to follow Microsoft until they have a large enough marketshare.
“In the latest example of a Linux distributor looking to get closer to Microsoft…”
I already know how this will turn out… History will repeat itself one more time.
i have a question and i don’t know where to turn to for this…but what windows programs can i use on red hat without decrypting and changing kernels of the programs?