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Information Technology News Microsoft deal with Novell to support Suse Linux
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Friday, 03 November 2006 | |
  
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Another key point of the report is that Microsoft has agreed not to pursue any patent rights over software incorporated into Suse Linux. Microsoft's move to embrace open source has become more apparent in recent days and today's news follows an announcement yesterday that Microsoft intends to cooperate with open source scripting language PHP specialist Zend Technologies, to enable PHP to work better with Windows. The reported relationship between Microsoft and Novell stands in stark contrast to that of Oracle and Red Hat, where Oracle, currently a Red Hat partner, threatens to pull the rug out from under the Linux leader by starting a price war on Red Hat support. {moscomment} |
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