Novell steering Microsoft defectors back to Microsoft?
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| In short, Novell is getting what it wants - to hurt Red Hat - but not
| getting what it really wants - to grow the market and take a larger
| share of that market. Novell may have succeeded in winning a skirmish,
| but is also helping to lose the battle, the war, and everything else
| for Linux/open source.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/novell_steering.html
Yankee Group: Novell gaining (with Microsoft's help) at Red Hat's expense
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| Microsoft gains an important ally in the ongoing EC antitrust actions --
| the Microsoft/Novell alliance severely diminishes many of the
| anti-competitive allegations the EC is lobbing against Microsoft.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=345
And now they've got an extension. Well done, Novell!
EU extends Microsoft deadline on charges
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| Microsoft Corp. now has until April 23 to respond to EU charges that
| it fails to offer rivals a fair deal on licenses for communications
| code that helps servers work with Windows, an EU spokesman said Monday.
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| The European Commission originally set a four-week deadline ending
| April 3, threatening to start levying daily fines of euro3 million
| (US$4 million) a day after that.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8O3U1G83.htm
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