Dell Joins Microsoft, Novell Alliance
Microsoft and Novell announced Monday that Dell will be the first major systems provider to join the companies' business collaboration, announced in 2006, focused on making their products work better together, among other objectives.
As part of the agreement, Dell said it will purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and form a services and marketing program to move Linux users to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Novell’s Linux-based server solution. The deal targets Linux users that are not Dell Linux customers.
The companies said the alliance is a response to consumer demand for increased interoperability among products and vendors as well as greater intellectual property confidence.
"Dell's embrace of the Novell-Microsoft agreement reflects a growing market reality: The two platforms of the future are Linux and Windows, and customers want them to work better together," Novell Vice President Susan Heystee said in a statement. -- Winter Casey
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