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ZDNet: Yankee Group: Novell Gaining (With Microsoft’s Help) At Red Hat’s Expense

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MJF
Mary Jo Foley
Mar 27, 2007

“Whatever the reasons behind the formation of the
Microsoft-Novell technology partnership announced last year, it’s
helping Novell SuSE Linux gain at Red Hat’s expense, according to a
research study due out next month.

“The Yankee Group ‘2007 Global Server Hardware and Server OS
Survey’–a survey of nearly 1,000 IT managers and C-level
executives–says that Novell’s SuSE Linux is ‘mounting a serious
threat to Red Hat’s heretofore unassailable dominance in the Linux
market…'”

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