After calling Linux a cancer, and making many other such disparaging remarks to anyone that would listen. Microsoft have just put 10 million dollars into a company called Vintela that is known for its Unix/Linux management software.
Could this be a sign of change from Microsoft? I doubt it personally, I suspect that they are either just covering their bases, or they are planning to use parts of their software to allow the management of Unix/Linux boxes from Windows servers, or vice versa. That’s not really as unusual as it sounds, one of Microsoft’s past tactics has been to make it really easy to migrate from a competitors products to their own, and nearly impossible to migrate away from. Nothing unusual there. You can read more about the deal here.
INSERT: It appears that Vintela is a Canopy group company, Canopy is behind SCO, so this may well be a sly way to give SCO more money to continue it’s battle against Linux. Read this groklaw article for more.
In other Microsoft news, a company in Australia called EEYE Security services has complained to the media that a critical security flaw in Win2k that they found and showed Microsoft in August has not been acted upon or patched. “The flaw allows anonymous attackers to compromise default installations of the affected software, without requiring user interaction, and gain absolute access to the host machine.”
More on that story here.
Franki
