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With SUSE Linux 11, Novell draws even closer to Microsoft

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Computerworld; By Eric Lai 		Mail this story
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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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Comments (2)

tracyanne ·
That's making SuSE Linux a replacement for Windows.
tuxtom ·
I've been saying all along the we are gonna see an MS-Linux. It is perfectly natural. This will give all LXites the satisfaction of having achieved Linux World Domination.

(Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.)

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