Microsoft and Novell surprised everyone this week by announcing a joint partnership on Linux!! No other than Palmer and Hovespian, the CEO’s of the respective companies, announced the news in San Francisco. The agreement states that Novell will pay to Microsoft fees for using its patents on interoperability between Office and Interoffice and virtualization management. Microsoft committed to buy 70000 Suse Enterprise server and to participate in a joint research Lab for inter-operability between Linux and Windows. On one side this is a the first time Microsoft acknowledges Linux as a seri.
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