Red Hat sets limits to Microsoft interoperability spiel

By

No photo op to show off Microsoft's playing nicely with proprietary
standards,.

Red Hat sets limits to Microsoft interoperability spiel
Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of Engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com.

"Interoperability done on closed APIs isn't interoperability," Cormier said.

"We'll never do interoperability based on closed APIs."

He said that Red Hat is actively talking to Microsoft to improve the way that Red Hat's Linux distribution and Windows interoperate. His comments indicate however that Red Hat isn't interested in a agreement similar to the one that Novell signed with Microsoft last November.

The company instead argued that it wouldn't require such an agreement because open standards already should guarantee interoperability.

"That challenge can be met by the work that we are doing with open standards, " said Timothy Yeaton, Red Hat's senior vice president of worldwide marketing" It shouldn't require an agreement."
Got a news tip for our journalists? Share it with us anonymously here.
Copyright ©v3.co.uk
Tags:

Most Read Articles

Orica to set new workforce systems live in Australia in July

Orica to set new workforce systems live in Australia in July

Lion builds an app to detect its beers on tap in venues

Lion builds an app to detect its beers on tap in venues

ANZ Institutional readies go-live for "multi-agent chatbot" amie

ANZ Institutional readies go-live for "multi-agent chatbot" amie

Victoria Police refreshes online reporting

Victoria Police refreshes online reporting

Log In

  |  Forgot your password?