Microsoft and Novell - Bitter Competitors to business partners
It wasn’t to long ago that Microsoft were lamenting that they let Novell take the File Server market and created Windows NT to come after and destroy Novell Netware.
Well now, many years later the two have joint into agreements over all things, Linux! This is a crazy, crazy world we live in. For a very full coverage of the announcement today, check out this article from Dana Gardner:
The stunning news that Microsoft will partner with Novell to support SuSe Linux as an alternative deployment platform to Windows — and that they announce it on the cusp of the arrival of Windows Vista! — is one of the most intriguing events in IT in some time.
Microsoft and Novell: Fox marries chicken, both move into henhouse
Molly


o2se3tak says:
Added on November 13th, 2006 at 8:40 amShouldn’t we abandon SUSE?
After the recent fiasco generated by Novell getting into an agreement with Microsoft and the whole Open Source Community planning to fight Novell both in and outside the court, will it be sensible to shift over to another Linux distribution? There are other distributions that are as good or better that SUSE so which will be best one to migrate to?