____/ Doug Mentohl on Monday 21 April 2008 15:53 : \____

> "In addition, Novell and Microsoft's collaboration will focus on
> efforts to convert unsupported Linux users to SUSE Linux Enterprise
> support, in China and elsewhere, which builds upon a growing global
> trend of large, multinational companies increasing their demand for
> subscribed and supported Linux"
>
> "This is due at least partly to the growing recognition amoung
> customers of the true costs and risk associated with running an
> unsupported IT environment, including the need for patches and bug
> fixes, supporting forked code, and retraining staff"
>
>
http://www.novell.com/zh-cn/news/pre...tion-to-china/

Novell and Microsoft will continue to get closer as time goes by. Avoid them
like you might avoid Yahoo at this stage, with sights ahead.

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