Microsoft and Novell Still Bosom Buddies: Can Linux and Windows really get along?

Jun 11, 2009, 20:03 (0 Talkback[s])
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""Our Microsoft partnership is clearly a very key and strategic part of our Linux business not only in terms of new customers but in terms of the innovation and work we do around interoperability between Windows and Linux," Susan Heystee, general manager for global strategic alliances at Novell, told InternetNews.com.

"Customers however, are still a key metric in measuring the relative success of the Microsoft/Novell collaboration. Heystee said that in just the past six months, the two companies have signed more than 100 new customers, which is double the rate in the first two years of their relationship."

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