version of the Linux software. Under the arrangement, both companies will promote and develop technologies to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft's Windows on their computers. Sounds like a win win situation for Novell unless Microsoft decides to buy them over to keep competition out.
Do we smell a Trojan Horse scheme here?It's amazing what has happened in the operating system and desktop application space since the rise of Google Inc. (Nasdaq GOOG). A decade ago, the last thing you would expect would be a partnership between rivals in the OS space like Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq MSFT) and Novell Inc. (Nasdaq NOVL). But now that the big G is on everyone's backs, foes are friends and friends are foes. From friend to foe: Think Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq YHOO) and Google.
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