Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 22:32 UTC
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian explained rather than defended his company's deal with Microsoft in his keynote address at the annual LinuxWorld Conference here Aug. 8. "I know our deal with Microsoft is controversial, but it is necessary for our customers who have to deal with both Linux and Windows in their data centers. Virtualization is also going to have to deal with both of those operating systems," he told attendees.
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"In the past 6 months we have much more positive interest with clients to using Linux"
The above statement might be true for you...
"whereas 3-4 years ago it was 0% chance they would be interested."
Again this statement may be 100% correct for you and where you sit within the markets....
The point is how on earth does this have anything to do with Microsoft giving Novell money...
I don't follow your logic... I would of said IBM originally did more by advertising Linux on TV and investing that $1billion all them years ago (into companies like Red Hat and Novell...