:Microsoft Novell Partnership Still Growing As partnership enters its third year
Microsoft Novell Partnership Still Growing As partnership enters its third year Nov 10, 2009, 20 :03 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (1420 reads) (Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
"The two partners now say they have more than 400 joint customers and are expanding their efforts around improving Windows to Linux interoperability on virtualization, directories and systems management. The third year anniversary comes as the initial $250 million investment nears exhaustion and a new outlay of $100 million is waiting in the wings.
""We've seen some nice update from our joint customers over the past year," Ted MacLean, general manager for strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) told InternetNews.com. "In the context of a really challenging economic environment we're proud of the fact that we've grown our joint customer base by 58 percent year over year."
"When the Novell/Microsoft partnership celebrated its second anniversary in 2008, there were 200 joint customers, a triple digit gain over the first year of the partnership. Though the percentage growth from year two to three was not as high as year one to year two, Novell and Microsoft do not see a slowdown in customer adoption."
