Microsoft's Linux Pact With Novell Signals Huge VAR Opportunity
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| The Novell-Microsoft deal, which follows Oracle's recent decision
| to begin selling its own support for Red Hat's version of Linux,
| also gives you an opportunity to recommend Linux to customers that
| have been on the fence.
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| The reason all this happened, in my opinion, is because of the
| success of Novell's SUSE Linux. There has always been a cloud over
| businesses that run both environments that at some point Microsoftm
| ight file patent-infringement claims against customers of SUSE Linux.
| In order to do that, however, Microsoft would have to sue its own
| customers, and that's not something any company wants to do.
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| By erasing that possibility, Microsoft gains some PR, customers can
| rest a bit more easily, and Microsoft can grow its business by
| developing products that work well with Linux rather than always
| being in an "either/or" position.
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