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ZDNet: Novell-Microsoft: How Many Times Can You Sell Your Soul?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 3, 2006

“I would not be comfortable turning Microsoft salespeople loose
on my customers. They are armed to the teeth with discounts and
incentives to beat any competitor. The announcement that Novell and
Microsoft will work together to improve interoperability between
Windows and Novell’s SuSE Linux, as well as cross-promote and
support one another’s products strikes me as eerily like one of
those movies with Christopher Lee as Dracula.

“Every time you see an old Dracula film, the same fool is making
a deal with Drac to achieve eternal life, a life you know, as the
viewer, is going to be awful and short…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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