Como se combate o populismo? "Com eleições", responde Fukuyama

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caro AC ... essa noticia é datada de ago 2004...

a NOVL esta a subir graças ao news flow positivo sobre LINUX (penso eu...

[AC]

Aqui está uma razão para o qual eu tenho mantido e dado conta a este fórum dos excelentes produtos que neste momento a NOVELL está oferecer e os contratos que ultimamente tem ganho. Leiam esta noticia que vai concerteza 2ªfeira provocar mais um bom volume.

http://www.architosh.com/news/2004-08/2 ... pple.phtml[url]

Today has been a shocking day for the tech crowd. First we learned that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a cancerous tumor removed from his pancreas over the weekend and that Sun's Jonathan Schwartz has blogged off the threat (ne, idea) that Sun might buy Novell -- using a threatening reference to IBM's past with Microsoft no less.

"What would owning the operating system on which IBM is dependent be worth? History would suggest we look at Microsoft for comparisons." -- Jonathan Schwartz, COO, Sun

IBM and Apple

Schwartz's statement embodies the level of Microsoft envy the company really suffers from. Regardless, such a purchase could both hurt IBM and boost Sun's future in the enterprise market. If I was in the driver's seat at IBM I would be considering buy Novell myself -- if such a purchase would be acceptable to both Linux users, customers and the regulatory bodies.

However, it might be more interesting if Apple bought Novell. Such a purchase would thwart Sun's 'negative energy' scheme while offering 'safe harbor' for IBM's ambitions with Novel's SuSE Linux on Power and PowerPC platforms

While Apple is riding a big consumer confidence wave with the iPod and iTunes Music Store, Apple could be getting its enterprise underpinnings in order by teaming up more strongly with IBM, Linux, and the open-source crowd.

You Have My Chips / You Have My OS

Owning IBM's Linux could be a good thing for Apple. After all, IBM owns the PowerPC processors Apple relies upon. It is a nice balance of power and trust. It would be a balanced and mutual exchange. Apple could persuade IBM to push the PowerPC to ever dizzying heights of performance, power and size, while Apple could slowly incorporate some of its OS technologies into Novell's Linux, strengthening the IBM's Linux position over Windows.

At the same time Novell's enterprise products could be configured to work on Apple's hardware, providing enterprise and large businesses even more incentives to look at OS X-based computers. Apple and IBM could clearly work together on a number of things that boost the PowerPC platform.

OS Eleven

An even more long-term radical strategy would be for Apple to eventually merge OS X and Novell's SuSE Linux entirely. Or for Apple to simply offer an OS X-based GUI with nifty Apple technologies for Novell's Linux. What Linux user today wouldn't want an interface like OS X? Even an older OS X interface would be better than what they have today!

An Enterprise FileMaker

If people think this might be too much for Apple to handle think again. Apple has been letting its FileMaker Inc. subsidiary -- which sells far more software to Windows users than Mac users -- operate relatively independently for many years now with great success. The same could be done with Novell. Let the company continue to serve its customers and partners (principally IBM) as it always has, but slowly in the background begin to strengthen Apple's position in the overall market.

Such a move would largely excite Wall Street as well. Clearly there is revenue and profits to be made in Linux and nobody would doubt Apple couldn't help make Novell Linux so much better. What do we get in the end? A world with a lot more PowerPC processors, a lot more software for the Mac and a greatly diminished Windows World.

That to me looks awfully favorable to growing Mac market share.

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