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Novell: in it for the interop, not the money

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
Reg Developer; By Gavin Clarke 		Mail this story
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A jointly sponsored Microsoft and Novell survey purporting strong customer support for the companies’ controversial alliance looks like back firing on Novell. While the poll of 201 IT executives with “significant” purchasing power found near unanimous support for interoperability between Linux and Windows, relatively few said they’d actually pick Novell’s SuSE Linux Server (SLES) as a result of the deal.

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Comments (4)

tuxchick ·
Just pure altruism on Novell's part. Gotta give that poor underdog Microsoft a helping hand.

The headline doesn't reflect the content of the article. But it's amusing anyway.
dinotrac ·
TC -

How can you be so cynical?

Why, didn't Jeffrey Skilling just go to jail for that principle? I think. I'm sure it had to do something with corporations shouldn't take money or something like that.

Right?
jdixon ·
> or something like that.

I'll go with something like that. :)

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