A recent blog post titled “Poll: Novell or Sun Microsystems?” managed to get me all excited today. Aaron Toponce posted a poll on his blog asking who you would rather work for. He went on to state his answer, SUN and the reasons. I just could not this go by without saying something so I posted this is the comments:
I would have to say Novell any day over SUN. The main reason I would select Novell over SUN is SUN has appeared to me as jumpy as a squirrel on jolt when it comes to products and company direction. Specifically Hammy the hyperactive squirrel from Over the Hedge comes to mind. Someone made a great joke image (below) on this line of thought.
So I just want to make a few more points
- People seem to have amnesia and forget that SUN and Microsoft struck a deal years before Novell
- Novell has helped Ifolder, Mono, Banshee, Evolution, Compiz, AppArmor, F-Spot…
- Novell has deals in place with more OEM companies: AMD, IBM, Dell…
John Anderson wrote a nice response to Aaron Toponce points. What are your thoughts?