Microsoft to recommend Suse Linux, sorta

[Fuse]

Redmond (WA) - No, it's not a misprint: Microsoft today announced one of those if-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em decisions and confirmed that it will be working closely with Novell to improve the interoperability and manageability between Windows and Linux. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will even recommend Suse Linux Enterprise for mixed OS environments.

If you are still rubbing your eyes: Yes, Microsoft has officially jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Having taken shots at each other for more than a decade, the two operating systems are growing closer with Windows and a major Linux distribution promising more interoperability for users who are running both packages on their computers.

More here: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/11/03/microsoft_novell_linux_windows/



wow...interestign read about unified research and cross-patents and stuff.

wow.

[Ketamininja]

Yep! Good news all round, especially Novell whose shares jumped 20% up with the news!

Been using SUSE at work for a while, and it is very nice alt for Redhat. But, bad news for RH, because now more will be poured into SUSE for drivers and opensource etc. Even nicer with XGL (Nice Video Preview here)

Also, on the Microshaft front this week:
IE7 will be deployed as part of auto updates circa 6th Nov.

AND
Good news for Kos and myself...
Microsoft & Zend (PHP engine developers) announced a multi-year partnership to improve PHP performance on Windows Server products.

Now enterprise customers will maybe go with a PHP/MySQL/IIS/Windows platform to co-exist with say an already present .NET environment for another part of their systems. Less money on hardware, less variety of hardware/OS.. cheaper for them, more business for Microsoft.

Take THAT ASP/.NET people