Microsoft and Novell upgrade partnership
Vole commits to $100 million purchase
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 11:52
THE VOLE HAS PROMISED to shell out an additional $100 million for customers running Microsoft's Windows server alongside Novell's SUSE.
The Redmond giant has already spent $240 million on Novell certificates that were resold to clients who redeemed them for SUSE service and support.
According to Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, the upgraded partnership will provide, "the best possible Windows-Linux interoperability solution".
A number of companies reportedly operate both Windows and SUSE, including Wal-Mart, HSBC, Renault, Southwest Airlines and BMW.
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian noted that the high demand for SUSE from customers and channel partners had "validated" the company's Linux strategy. µ
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I'm really interested to see how this will play out with the patent provisions in GPLv3, seeing as SUSE will undoubtedly ship with the GPLv3+ SAMBA.
What a well written article. Novell and Microsoft together again... music to my ears.
I'd like to know, too. When the agreement was first signed, Microsoft vociferously insisted that it wasn't subject to GPLv3. But now that it's continuing to reinforce this agreement, it seems to me it's just digging itself deeper into the GPL anti-patent trap.