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Microsoft Watch: Novell’s Stone Speaks Out

By Mary Jo Foley

“Just before hopping a plane to jet off to LinuxWorld in San
Francisco, Novell vice chairman Chris Stone provided a few quick
answers to a few of our questions on Monday’s announcements that
Novell plans to buy Gnome and Mono developer Ximian–as well as on
Red Hat’s decision to sue SCO.

“Microsoft Watch: Now that you are buying
Ximian, will Novell offer a Linux desktop distribution?

“Stone: Yes. The plan is to package the Ximian
desktop with some of our products. Specifics are yet to be
determined. But we want to cover Linux from the desktop to the
server…”

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