Novell Relishes Pact with Microsoft
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| [Steinman:] As part of our agreement, Microsoft purchased from Novell $240
| million of certificates that customers can redeem for subscriptions to SuSE
| Linux Enterprise Server with support. Microsoft has been selling
| those certificates to customers as part of mixed Windows-Linux deals.
| Xandros didn't get anything like that. We also have some of the
| unique stuff around virtualization with Microsoft. We weren't
| surprised by this news. They said publicly from day one they
| wanted to sign up some other partners as part of their open
| source ecosystem.
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| So is this a good thing?
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| [Steinman:] It's part of Microsoft's business strategy. I think well
| leave it up to the market to decide. All I'm capable of
| commenting on is why Novell did the deal. It was important
| to deliver this technical interoperability between Windows
| and Linux. It's been borne out by the fact that in the six
| months of the deal so far, Novell has invoiced $91 million
| of the $240 million that Microsoft committed to us in the
| agreement. That's roughly 38 percent in six months of a
| five-year deal.
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http://reddevnews.com/qandas/article.aspx?editorialsid=112
A ridiculous mindset and quite a pathetic one. Microsoft has already
backstabbed Novell.
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