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Keeps SuSE alive.
Perhaps both Oracle's move and Microsoft's responded to Red Hat's advance toward a monopoly in commercial Linux.

The coupons for SuSE appear to be either direct subsidy or deputizing Microsoft to assist SuSE. So Microsoft supports Novell in order to help (a version of) Linux.

Another irony is eDirectory...

And the ODF portion is ironic, too. Microsoft must be very confident that ODF is a passing fancy. Novell must have needed a win to present to its open source clientele. And IBM seems to have emphasized that part alone.

IBM probably wishes that it had done more to support its Linux wranglers. Others have had to step in to help.

I wonder how many places will do virtualization on Windows to run Linux...
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 11/02/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Keeps SuSE alive.  Anton Philidor | 11/02/06
Hmmm maybe...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/02/06
Actually  Sheeva | 11/03/06
Why dot net on Linux.  jmusto@... | 11/03/06
Did the "hot place" just freeze over???  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/02/06
good one No_Axe...  Arm A. Geddon | 11/02/06
Fox marries chicken, both move into henhouse  Arm A. Geddon | 11/02/06
p.s. anyone get pictures of Ballmers reaction to this?  Arm A. Geddon | 11/02/06
Embrace and extend = crush to expand.  HypnoToad | 11/02/06
Very naive  mlambert890@... | 11/03/06
business 101?  shryko | 11/03/06
SNAFU and Fair Trade  jmusto@... | 11/03/06
Novell doesnt need to look to far to find...  mrlinux | 02/27/07
Directory service  roaming | 11/02/06
I sure hope so...  zkiwi | 11/02/06
Well...  zkiwi | 11/02/06
Novell Makes a Critical Error  Tim Patterson | 11/02/06
In fact...  Tim Patterson | 11/02/06
The perception has always been...  bportlock | 11/03/06
Hyper reactionary  mlambert890@... | 11/03/06
Biblical Proportions  Grolan | 11/03/06
FUD  jmusto@... | 11/03/06
MS/Novell: Fox marries chicken  jimselover | 11/04/06
Ballmer: ""We are Borg..."  justchange@... | 11/04/06
Microsoft and Novell: Fox marries chicken, both move into henhouse  Handover Phist | 11/11/06
It's folly to expect anything but skullduggery from MS  josjoslyn | 01/06/07

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