Microsoft, Novell Reach Agreement on Linux

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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2050694,00.asp

Novell, Microsoft Ink Linux Partnership
http://www.betanews.com/article/Nove...hip/1162510036

Microsoft to recommend Suse Linux, sorta
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/11/03/mi...linux_windows/


I do not know what to say:5headache:
Recap

OpenOffice will also play a role in the agreement. Microsoft and Novell will work to ensure documents created in the free productivity suite can seamlessly work in Office 2007

Microsoft is providing a covenant not to assert its patent rights against customers of SUSE Linux

Novell will make ongoing royalty payments to Microsoft for all open source products it ships.

The Microsoft-Novell pact, which will run until at least 2012

The agreement focuses on three main technological areas: virtualization to allow Linux to run on Windows machines and vice versa, Web services to help customers with a mix of Linux and Windows products, and document format compatibility to allow users to share documents.

Microsoft has officially jumped on the Linux bandwagon