Novell-Microsoft: After The Deal
It has been seven weeks since Novell and Microsoft announced their interoperability and patent protection deal. This week the companies revealed the first fruits of that pact and with them the first big-name staff defection.
Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and AIG Technologies will be receiving SUSE Linux Enterprise subscription certificates from Microsoft. As part of the deal, Microsoft acquired 70,000 certificates for SUSE Linux Enterprise.
In an after-market conference call, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik knocked the Novell-Microsoft announcement of the three customer wins.
"Those were existing accounts," Szulik said in regards to Novell's announcement.
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