Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have announced that Dell Inc. is the first major systems provider to join the business collaboration that was formed by Microsoft and Novell in response to customer demand for greater interoperability and intellectual property (IP) assurance. As part of the agreement, Dell will purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft and establish a services and marketing program to migrate existing Linux users who are not Dell Linux customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
As we get more information, we’ll be sure to keep you updated. In the meantime, here are a couple links:
The central site for info about the Novell and Microsoft Agreement is:
http://www.moreinterop.com
May 14, 2007 at 3:02 pm
[...] Posted by kchin under Press , Windows In addition to the initial set of customers and Dell who have announced their support of the Novell-Microsoft Agreement, a new press release came out [...]
November 12, 2007 at 11:22 pm
[...] Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More info on the lab is in the recent press release. Dell signed on as a partner for the agreement as well, working to help Linux customers with SUSE Linux Enterprise [...]