Novell Relishes Pact with Microsoft
For more than six months, Novell Inc. was Microsoft's exclusive partner for Linux distribution. Then last month, at the TecháEd conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced the first of several agreements that Redmond says will indemnify customers from patent infringement liability if they used protected iterations of Linux with Windows.
RDN's Executive Editor, Features Jeffrey Schwartz talked about the Microsoft-Novell deal with Justin Steinman, Novell's director of product marketing for Linux and open platform solutions, at TecháEd. Steinman was involved in negotiating the terms of the deal and offers his insights on Microsoft's actions, the impact of the agreements on Linux development and more.
Is the fact that Microsoft has made agreements with other players a good thing for Novell?
I think while the Xandros agreement has some elements of the agreement that they signed with Novell, it lacks other pieces of it like the certificate component, where Microsoft is reselling certificates customers can redeem for copies of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. That component's kind of unique to the Novell deal.
As part of our agreement, Microsoft purchased from Novell $240 million of certificates that customers can redeem for subscriptions to SuSE Linux Enterprise Server with support.
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Novell's Agreement -> Microsoft paying off a lawsuit to Novell
More and More as I see the structures of the other deals. In the Microsoft / Novell agreement I see a settlement of a Microsoft / Novell suit that Novell settled for 1/4 Billion dollars instead of 1/2 Billion Dollars and Microsoft got to call it something else that looks better on the stock.
Novell spiked the Kool-aid by the way and is "loving it".
Asta La Vista baby!