Quoting Randall Shimizu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It appears that MS is trying extend & embrace the Linux community. So perhaps MS is trying to get users the patent protected version of Linux. Microsoft could then raise the licensing fees to Novell..
I was actually wondering if part of it might be the increase in usage of virtual machines expected. With Intel's VT stuff, AMD's Pacifica, VMware, Xen, etc... more and more people seem to be talking about using virtualization. I don't know of many that intend on doing mass virtualization and using windows as the base OS for it... so MS might be hoping that partnering with novell will help with making sure windows is well supported under things like Xen (Novell is really pushing Xen more), and better access to direct testing under things like Xen with Novell would help.
I don't think that's the whole reason for their acceptance of the partnership of course.. but I think it might be part of it.
The only thing I'm keeping an eye out for is that things don't change for those of us that have standardized on SLES over RHEL. We've done that at work in our compute farm (for various reasons) and hopefully this isn't going to effect us much, if at all.
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