While he didn't get a rousing reception from the crowd at his early-morning keynote speech Tuesday at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco, Novell's vice chairman Chris Stone did offer a pragmatic view of the open-source market, calling it "another way" to make money selling software. After his talk, Networking Pipeline caught up with Stone to get a few additional insights on what Novell can bring to the open source table, and to ask how much time users should spend worrying about the threats of lawsuits from the SCO Group.
Networking Pipeline: What is Novell's value-add to the open source business?
Chris Stone: Things like file, print, directory services, security, software distribution, patch management -- those are all things you can make money at. And those are the things we've been building for 15 years. So if you substitute the [NetWare] OS with Linux, you can still complement it with all those services up the stack.
So that's what we're doing. And you can mix and match -- you can mix and match proprietary code and open source code, and you can charge for the open source code, or not. What people really want is the customer service. Now NetWare users can move to Linux, and get the same things.
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