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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. Re:Microsoft to sell SUSE Support Vouchers .. by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Interesting

    insert car analogy here ...

    Ford giving you a discount on your next Chevy (and service on the thing while you own it, too!)

    Dunno what would be more incredulous - selling the scheme with a straight face, or actually buying into it with one.

    (hey, you asked...)

    /P

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  2. Subtle effects on SUSE by FritzSolms · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There do seem some subtle effects on SUSE, though. If you install version 11.0 on a machine which has Windows pre-installed (because you couldn't buy the Laptop without the Microsoft tax), it no longer gives yo a pref=configured option to remove the Windows. The only way, it seems, to remove Windows now is to go through a manual partitioning process which may be a bit daunting for the average home user. In versions prior to the Microsoft partnership, there was a convenient option to do a clean install removing all existing partitions including an MS partition. Fritz