Microsoft Making Millions Off Novell Linux

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jan 3, 2008 4:55 PM EDT
Information Week; By Paul McDougall 		Mail this story
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called Linux a cancer. Now, thanks to his company's alliance wit, he's probably labeling the open source OS as something much more benign. Like, say, "Cash Cow!" Evidence is emerging that Microsoft is making money, lots of it, from selling 'certificates' for Novell's SUSE Linux. Microsoft gained the right to distribute the certificates a little more than a year ago under a marketing and technical alliance with Novell.

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Gradually replacing the Windows cash cow? Libervis 3 836 Jan 4, 2008 12:18 AM

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