Interview With Microsoft's Linux Strategist Martin Taylor

In this interview Martin Taylor covers what he has learned about Linux in the last year as Microsoft's “general manager of platform strategy”. He reiterates the fact that the current litigation really is swaying some large customers (we need to get that case behind us – the fact that it is bogus in many ways unfortunately doesn't matter). He also sees Novell being the number one distro and IBM having some trouble, long term, with their “Linux embracement”. In a completely ironic statement he also says that “IBM's going to be even more beholden to Red Hat and to Novell to do things”..um, I thought the fact that IBM was tired of being beholden was one of the reasons they embraced Linux. The fact that they very much support 2 distros means that neither one can really squeeze them like MSFT has been able to.
–jeremy