Novell Linux Business Spikes Since Microsoft Deal

StonyandCher writes "Novell's divisive deal with Microsoft has apparently resulted in some financial success for the company. PC World is now reporting that the company's Linux business has risen about 250% since the deal was announced last November. From the article: '[Novell director of marketing Justin Steinman] said part of its growth was directly related to the Microsoft deal, adding that Novell has billed more than US$100 million in business through its Microsoft relationship. He added that the growth was also due to the halo effect of the arrangement. "When we're out there competing with Red Hat, [our salespeople] are saying, 'Our Linux is recommended by Microsoft,' and customers that already have a Windows investment say it seems to make sense to pick the Linux that works with Windows."'"

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[DogDude]

All the major distributions are all basically of the same quality and use almost the exact same software.

Really? That's news to me! So then Red Hat Enterprise Edition is the same as Linspire? Gentoo and Ubuntu are the same? SUSE and Fedora? Wow. Well, what's the point of having lots of different groups of people make their own distributions, then?