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Microsoft To Buy $100M More SUSE Support Vouchers

Posted by timothy on from the whole-lot-of-sweetness dept.

CWmike writes "Microsoft will buy and resell up to another $100 million worth of enterprise support subscriptions for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. Two years ago, Microsoft agreed to buy and resell $240 million worth of the vouchers. Susan Hauser, general manager of strategic partnerships and licensing at Microsoft, confirmed that some of the subscription vouchers were sold to customers for less than face value, though none were given away for free."

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  1. Why? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why would you buy Linux support from MS? You would think you'd get better support buying it from, oh, a lemonade stand perhaps?

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    1. Re:Why? by Giometrix · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why would you buy Linux support from MS? You would think you'd get better support buying it from, oh, a lemonade stand perhaps?

      Because Microsoft is know for excellent support?

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    2. Re:Why? by SlipperHat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why would you buy Linux support from MS? You would think you'd get better support buying it from, oh, a lemonade stand perhaps?

      Because Microsoft is know for excellent support?

      No, because Microsoft is known for its high quality lemons.

  2. Don't you get it? by BadOPCode · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's a conspiracy!!! Novell is evil and is in league with Microsoft and Men In Black. They want to take over the Earth for the aliens and satan, and Microsoft selling SuSE support is the first step! Quick we need to make some tin foil hats!

    1. Re:Don't you get it? by HappySmileMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      +1, informative

  3. Re:Can anyone clarify? by unlametheweak · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems more like the dubious world of high finance and banking than anything high tech. Microsoft is buying and selling Linux vouchers? Well they could just as easily be selling Indulgences.

    And BTW my eyes happened to glance at the top of Slashdot, I thought it read "Don't feed the penguins".

  4. Re:Microsoft to sell SUSE Support Vouchers .. by HappySmileMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    insert car analogy here

    It's like Ford reselling support for Toyota cars.

  5. Re: Microsoft to sell SUSE Support Vouchers .. by rs232 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's like Ford reselling support for Toyota cars"

    and Toyota putting 'Toyota recommends Ford Focus' on every car Toyota sells ..

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  6. Re:The support is from Novell. by argent · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, yeh, I was just pointing out that there was no danger of getting some Microserf asking you "would you like VBscript with that?"

  7. Re:Can anyone clarify? by alexborges · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure... for different values of "operates".

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