With SUSE Linux 11, Novell draws even closer to Microsoft

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 24, 2009 6:42 PM EDT
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The latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell Inc.'s commercial distribution of the open-source operating system, bears more fruit from Novell's controversial two-and-a-half-year-old interoperability alliance with Microsoft Corp. One version of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, what Novell likes to call SLE 11, will allow companies to run applications built with Microsoft's .Net platform to work on Linux without recompiling them. That version, called Mono Extension, even runs on IBM's System z, enabling IBM'S mainframe computers to run .Net apps.

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That's not drawing closer to Microsoft. tracyanne 1 824 Mar 25, 2009 3:52 AM

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