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Re: [News] Novell's Linux Coupons Have No Impact on Microsoft

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft Hands Out 16,000 SUSE Linux Subscriptions
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Susan Hauser, Microsoft's general manager of customer advocacy,
>| told eWEEK Dec. 20 that no existing Microsoft software seats were
>| lost under these three agreements.
> `----
> 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2075125,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
> 
> Well done, Novell. Those coupon, which will be used to virtualise Linux
> /under/ Windows, IIRC, are going to waste. The deeper you dig, the better
> you realise who wins from this deal (as though you didn't know already).

Well, who /really/ wins are the Novell execs who've just awarded
themselves stonkingly huge bonusses for bringing in US$340M for, err,
something or other.

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard
To fetch her poor daughter a dress.
When she got there, the cupboard was bare
And so was her daughter, I guess...

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